So I spent most of the (long) week-end hacking on various things, and behaving geekishly.
Gforge 4.0 packaging goes along rather nicely. Packages built from current CVS won't use LDAP anymore (except for the old gforge-mta-exim, but you really should be using gforge-mta-exim4 or -mta-postfix by now). Shell accounts, e-mail redirection and mailing-list resolution now use direct PostgreSQL lookups. No more install-ldap.sh scripts running hourly and taking forever. No more nightmares setting up slapd and trying to clean after it when it explodes. Yay!
Other news, on the video front: okay, I gave in, I finally accepted the next-best-thing that so many people have sent me. My raw1394 and dv1394/host0/PAL/out device nodes are now statically created by me, and symlinked by udevd via links.conf. Urgh. It means I can grab video from the camcorder, edit it, and export it back to the camcorder, all that in the same Kino session (and under a reasonably current 2.6 kernel).
Editing video is nice, but it's not very useful if you have to carry your camcorder along at all times to show people, though. So I wanted/needed a free, working encoder for a nice codec that I could use. I wanted Theora. I whined for sometime, and I finally understood that Kino wouldn't have anything to do with it, and I had to use ffmpeg2theora. Blargh. Whatever, I grabbed it from upstream and packaged it (it's at http://roland.mas.free.fr/debian/ if you want it -- someone please ITP it, take it, write a manpage, and upload it to Debian). Now Kino can export to Theora, cool.
Now I just have to find one media player able to play Theora correctly, and things will be fine. Xine only wants to play the Vorbis (audio) track, and shows me a visual representation of it. VLC is fine after like fifteen seconds, but it starts by playing audio too fast, then slows down, while video takes long before coming, then it comes up too fast and slows down to a normal speed too. As for totem-gstreamer... It starts by playing audio fine, but video is about 5-6 times too slow for as long as there is sound to play. When the end of the audio track is reached, all the video is played as fast as possible (and in total silence).
Oh, and I also got my ass kicked at Freeciv. I used to play Civilisation for days in the good old Atari ST days, but I seem to have forgotten quite a lot. Or maybe I was no good to start with, who knows, the AIs never told me. So I need to practice against AIs, I suppose, before I next connect to a game server.
Okay, so I spent the whole weekend on a computer. So what? It was raining anyway.
