From chris at matroska.org  Tue Mar  1 21:05:19 2005
From: chris at matroska.org (Christian HJ Wiesner)
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 21:05:19 +0100
Subject: [Matroska-general] [Fwd: Second Annual Free Software Contest
	OPENNED]
Message-ID: <4224CAFF.9040500@matroska.org>

FYI

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
Betreff: 	Second Annual Free Software Contest OPENNED
Datum: 	Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:45:28 +0100
Von: 	Christophe Uzan <cuzan at le-public-systeme.fr>
An: 	<chris at matroska.org>



 

*Matroska***

Second Annual Free Software Awards

www.tropheesdulibre.org

For the 2nd edition of "Troph?es du Libre", Soissons Informatique Libre 
- European Free Software Transfer and Research Center, invite you in 
Soissons, France, on Thursday, May the 26th 2005.

"Free Software Trophies" goals are to give credit and reward the work of 
individuals, companies and institutions which contribute to development 
and enhancement of Free and Open Source software all around the world.

This year the ? Troph?es du Libre ? will award projects from six categories:

-  Security
-  Applications for public infrastructures and for communities
-  Companies management
-  Education
-  Multimedia / Games
-  Mobility
-  Embedded Systems.

For the first time, the event, partnering with Nexen Services, the Open 
Source hosting specialist, will award a *Special Price for PHP Projects*.

A jury, directed by David Axmark, co-founder of MySQL AB, will evaluate 
the projects. The members of the jury will be famous personalities of 
the open source community, including:

-  Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of PHP,
-  Edouard Gomez, Xvid Project
-  Ben Laurie, creator of Open SSL and representative for the Apache 
Software Foundation,
-  Nat Makarevitch, major player who promotes the Open Source software 
in the French speaking community

The jury will also include some professional users and contributors such 
as Laurent Bloch, information security officer at the INSERM and Patrick 
de Carn? DSI at the Paris 5 University.

The Awards ceremony will take place in Soissons on May 26, 2005. The 
price is an encouragement for the creators, and a quality seal for the 
users. Additionally, the event sponsors and partners will hand over 
other prices.

 

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From rvmarce at free.fr  Fri Mar  4 10:07:29 2005
From: rvmarce at free.fr (herve marce)
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:07:29 +0100
Subject: [Matroska-general] gestion des drm
Message-ID: <2fb96a6ab4f18baf0e62d6e445126298@free.fr>

Bonjour
D?sol? de m'exprimer en fran?ais sur une mailing list qui est 
certainement en anglais, mais mon anglais n'est pas tr?s bon.
Est il pr?vu dans Matroska une gestion des DRM, j'ai un projet de 
proposer sur le net des vid?os de producteurs ind?pendant mais malgr? 
que cela soit des ind?pendants, il serait souhaitable de pouvoir 
prot?ger un minimum les oeuvres. Je suis donc ? la recherche d'une 
solution alternative que celle propos? par les grands groupes tels que 
Microsoft.
Merci pour vos r?ponses



try i translate

Hello

I'm sorry I write in french, but my english is not very good.
  it is envisaged in matroska a Digital Rights Management, I'm a project 
to propse on net movies of independant producers, but  although that is 
the independent it would be desirable to be able to protect a minimum 
works.  I search a alternaive solution that proposed by the great 
groups such as Microsoft.

Thank's for your answer





From ralphios at hotmail.com  Fri Mar  4 11:09:34 2005
From: ralphios at hotmail.com (Ralph kok)
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:09:34 +0000
Subject: [Matroska-general] problem with .mkv file
Message-ID: <BAY10-F83FC0C300A0CCF46493CDDD5C0@phx.gbl>

hey,

i got a file .mkv and i use matroska to play it but i got english and 
japanese voices. very annoying. do you have any means of disableling one of 
the spoken voices?

please reply to this msg

thanks in advance

Ralph kok




From moritz at bunkus.org  Sun Mar  6 12:12:06 2005
From: moritz at bunkus.org (Moritz Bunkus)
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 12:12:06 +0100
Subject: [Matroska-general] problem with .mkv file
In-Reply-To: <BAY10-F83FC0C300A0CCF46493CDDD5C0@phx.gbl>
References: <BAY10-F83FC0C300A0CCF46493CDDD5C0@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <200503061212.10779.moritz@bunkus.org>

Hey,

this is usually the case if you're using Windows Media Player. Try
another player like ZoomPlayer, TCMP (The Core Media Player), BSPlayer
or Media Player Classic.

Mosu

-- 
If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage
unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial
nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment
to the commercial growth of prostitution. - Linus Torvalds

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From steve.lhomme at free.fr  Sun Mar  6 15:01:52 2005
From: steve.lhomme at free.fr (Steve Lhomme)
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 15:01:52 +0100
Subject: [Matroska-general] gestion des drm
In-Reply-To: <2fb96a6ab4f18baf0e62d6e445126298@free.fr>
References: <2fb96a6ab4f18baf0e62d6e445126298@free.fr>
Message-ID: <422B0D50.1070905@free.fr>

It's technically possible to put all kind of stuff in Matroska, even 
encrypted content. Now it depends on what you want, like a watermark, a 
file with a public key or something different.

We don't have a DRM technology of our own. And so far noone has tried to 
implement one. But if you have one or know one, we can probably 
integrate it.

herve marce a ?crit :
> Bonjour
> D?sol? de m'exprimer en fran?ais sur une mailing list qui est 
> certainement en anglais, mais mon anglais n'est pas tr?s bon.
> Est il pr?vu dans Matroska une gestion des DRM, j'ai un projet de 
> proposer sur le net des vid?os de producteurs ind?pendant mais malgr? 
> que cela soit des ind?pendants, il serait souhaitable de pouvoir 
> prot?ger un minimum les oeuvres. Je suis donc ? la recherche d'une 
> solution alternative que celle propos? par les grands groupes tels que 
> Microsoft.
> Merci pour vos r?ponses
> 
> 
> 
> try i translate
> 
> Hello
> 
> I'm sorry I write in french, but my english is not very good.
>  it is envisaged in matroska a Digital Rights Management, I'm a project 
> to propse on net movies of independant producers, but  although that is 
> the independent it would be desirable to be able to protect a minimum 
> works.  I search a alternaive solution that proposed by the great groups 
> such as Microsoft.
> 
> Thank's for your answer
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Matroska-general mailing list
> Matroska-general at lists.matroska.org
> http://lists.matroska.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/matroska-general

-- 
robUx4 on blog <http://robux4.blogspot.com/>



From moritz at bunkus.org  Tue Mar 15 11:12:15 2005
From: moritz at bunkus.org (Moritz Bunkus)
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:12:15 +0100
Subject: [Matroska-general] mkvtoolnix 1.4.1 released
Message-ID: <200503151112.19998.moritz@bunkus.org>

Hey,

time for another mkvtoolnix release: 1.4.1. This is a pure bug fix
release. No new features. However, there are still a couple of known
bugs left that I have to address, especially regarding file
concatenation (e.g. problems with chapters & "linked" files; playback
issues of concatenated files). Those will be fixed later.

Here are the usual links...
...to the home page:
http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/
...the source code:
http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/sources/mkvtoolnix-1.4.1.tar.bz2
...the Windows binaries (Unicode):
http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/win32/mkvtoolnix-unicode-1.4.1-setup.exe
...the Windows binaries (non-Unicode):
http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/win32/mkvtoolnix-1.4.1-setup.exe

Binaries for other systems are available from the home page.

Here's what's been done since 1.4.0:
-------------------------------------------------------------
2005-03-15  Moritz Bunkus  <moritz at bunkus.org>

 * Released v1.4.1.

2005-03-14  Moritz Bunkus  <moritz at bunkus.org>

 * mkvmerge: bug fix: AC3 detection was broken in rare cases.

2005-03-13  Moritz Bunkus  <moritz at bunkus.org>

 * mmg: bug fix: If the TEMP environment variable contains spaces
 then the calls to mkvmerge when adding files failed.

2005-03-06  Moritz Bunkus  <moritz at bunkus.org>

 * mkvmerge: bug fix: Extracting the FPS from some AVC MP4 files
 did not work.

 * mkvmerge: bug fix: Appending + splitting was segfaulting if used
 together and at least one split occured after a track has been
 appended.

2005-03-02  Moritz Bunkus  <moritz at bunkus.org>

 * mkvmerge: Added more descriptive error messages if two tracks
 cannot be concatenated because "their parameters do not match".

2005-02-28  Moritz Bunkus  <moritz at bunkus.org>

 * mkvmerge: bug fix: A failing call to posix_fadvise will only
 turn its usage off for that one file and not abort mkvmerge
 completely.

	* mmg: bug fix: When "appending" a file all tracks where added to
	the end of the track list making it unnecessarily difficult to
	concatenate similar structured files. Now the tracks from the
	"appended" files are inserted into the track list after their
	counterparts from the file this new one is appended to.

2005-02-27  Moritz Bunkus  <moritz at bunkus.org>

	* mmg: bug fix: An "appended" file could not be removed if there
	were two tracks that we not separated by a track from another file
	in the track list box.

	* mmg: bug fix: The check whether or not a file might be
	overwritten while splitting is active has been fixed.

	* mmg: bug fix: Improved the word wrapping of the tooltips on
	Windows.

	* mmg: bug fix: It was possible to select a file for appending
	even though no file was added first.

	* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge was wrongly outputting large numbers
	of warnings when Remuxing AVC/h.264 video from a Matroska file.

	* mmg: bug fix: The job queue was not loaded on startup on Windows
	Unicode builds (another wxWidgets 2.5.3 problem).

2005-02-26  Moritz Bunkus  <moritz at bunkus.org>

	* mmg: bug fix: The job status in the job runner dialog was broken
	on Unicode builds on all systems.

	* mmg: bug fix: "Splitting by time" was not selectable on Windows
	Unicode builds (problem with wxWidgets 2.5.3).

	* mmg: bug fix: mkvmerge's output during muxing was not converted
	from UTF-8.

	* mmg: bug fix: The default extension added when the user doesn't
	give one is different in wxWidgets 2.4.x and 2.5.x. It should
	always be .mkv and not .mka.
-------------------------------------------------------------

Have fun :)

Mosu

-- 
If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage
unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial
nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment
to the commercial growth of prostitution. - Linus Torvalds

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From berthy8 at wanadoo.fr  Wed Mar 16 14:26:51 2005
From: berthy8 at wanadoo.fr (Didier BERTHIERE)
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:26:51 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Matroska-general] (no subject)
Message-ID: <897165.1110979611309.JavaMail.www@wwinf0503>

bonjour,
je voudrait savoir comment fait-on pour d?faire un fichier mkv ou autrement dit extrait la vid?o ou que le son, etc... Merci de me r?pondre. Bye
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From steve.lhomme at free.fr  Mon Mar 21 22:47:11 2005
From: steve.lhomme at free.fr (Steve Lhomme)
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 22:47:11 +0100
Subject: [Matroska-general] [Fwd: Porn]
Message-ID: <423F40DF.4040601@free.fr>

Good one.

-------- Message original --------
Sujet: 	Porn
Date: 	Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:55:16 -0500



       Godwin's Law analog for porn and file-sharing

Ed Felten pithily observes a corollary to Godwin's Law (which says that
all online arguments end when someone gets compared to Hitler) for the
copyfight: "As a copyright policy discussion grows longer, the
probability of pornography being invoked approaches one. When the topic
of a copyright policy discussion switches to pornography, each side
suddenly adopts the other side's arguments."

     Hollywood argues that filesharing will lead to a shortage of movies,
     because nobody will make movies they can't sell. But when the topic
     switches to pornographic movies, suddenly they start arguing that
     filesharing increases the creation and availability of content.

     Similarly, some P2P vendors who say they can't possibly filter or
     block copyrighted content, suddenly decide, when the topic switches
     to porn, that they can provide effective blocking.

     X!


-- 
robUx4 on blog <http://robux4.blogspot.com/>


From travisbell at mac.com  Mon Mar 28 21:25:10 2005
From: travisbell at mac.com (Travis Bell)
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:25:10 -0700
Subject: [Matroska-general] 4.4GB avi errors with MatroskaSplitter
Message-ID: <42171bba27d723ddd050b4b433f0e2f7@mac.com>

Hey,

I have a 4.4GB avi that I created with AutoGK and have been trying to 
get it working with Windows Media Player 10. With your splitter 
installed, I get the following error upon loading:

Error: can't open file: 80004005

This file plays perfectly in VLC. All I am trying to do is get WMP to 
have the ability to play it.

Cheers,

-- 
Travis Bell

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From ishikawa at arielworks.com  Wed Mar 30 18:12:53 2005
From: ishikawa at arielworks.com (Yudai Ishikawa)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 01:12:53 +0900
Subject: [Matroska-general] file extension of Japanese and content
	negotiation
Message-ID: <20050330161937.AEF91440052@p15097576.pureserver.info>

Hi.

I have a question about the file extensions of matroska.org.
I think that the extension of "Japanese" is not ".jp" but ".ja".
("jp" is COUNTRY code, not language)
May I change the file names that have .jp extension in SVN?

One more question. This is also about languages of the pages.
I think we should use "content negotiation" which checks
"Accept" header fields (like: en-us, en, ja) of the HTTP requests and
replies the pages in optimum language (according to file extension)
automatically.
All we have to do is to add a line "Option +Multiviews" to .htaccess.
What do you think?

Yudai



From steve.lhomme at free.fr  Wed Mar 30 20:16:12 2005
From: steve.lhomme at free.fr (Steve Lhomme)
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:16:12 +0200
Subject: [Matroska-general] file extension of Japanese and
	content	negotiation
In-Reply-To: <20050330161937.AEF91440052@p15097576.pureserver.info>
References: <20050330161937.AEF91440052@p15097576.pureserver.info>
Message-ID: <424AECEC.9040400@free.fr>

Yudai Ishikawa a ?crit :
> Hi.
> 
> I have a question about the file extensions of matroska.org.
> I think that the extension of "Japanese" is not ".jp" but ".ja".
> ("jp" is COUNTRY code, not language)
> May I change the file names that have .jp extension in SVN?

Damn, you're right ! Shame on me.
You can do the change in SVN. Note that SVN is better than CVS for this. 
You don't need to delete and add the file again. You just need to 
"rename" it.

> One more question. This is also about languages of the pages.
> I think we should use "content negotiation" which checks
> "Accept" header fields (like: en-us, en, ja) of the HTTP requests and
> replies the pages in optimum language (according to file extension)
> automatically.

This is done automatically by Apache. It works for other languages. It's 
just that for japanese the extension was wrpong so far.

> All we have to do is to add a line "Option +Multiviews" to .htaccess.
> What do you think?

It's already handled in httpd.conf, don't worry :)

> Yudai

Thanks for the help !

-- 
robUx4 on blog <http://robux4.blogspot.com/>



From ishikawa at arielworks.com  Wed Mar 30 22:12:56 2005
From: ishikawa at arielworks.com (Yudai Ishikawa)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 05:12:56 +0900
Subject: [Matroska-general] file extension of Japanese
	andcontent	negotiation
In-Reply-To: <424AECEC.9040400@free.fr>
References: <424AECEC.9040400@free.fr>
Message-ID: <20050330201259.1294D440052@p15097576.pureserver.info>

Hi.

> Damn, you're right ! Shame on me.
> You can do the change in SVN. Note that SVN is better than CVS for this. 
> You don't need to delete and add the file again. You just need to 
> "rename" it.
Ok. I'll use ".ja" when I make new files.


> This is done automatically by Apache. It works for other languages. It's 
> just that for japanese the extension was wrpong so far.
> 
> > All we have to do is to add a line "Option +Multiviews" to .htaccess.
> > What do you think?
> 
> It's already handled in httpd.conf, don't worry :)

Ah, It's true. I should have checked in other languages.


Thanks you.

Yudai



From an.jop at arcor.de  Thu Mar 31 00:22:45 2005
From: an.jop at arcor.de (Joachim Joppe)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:22:45 +0200 (Westeuropäische Sommerzeit)
Subject: [Matroska-general] Use (Unpack) A Matroska - File
Message-ID: <424B26B5.000003.00904@KOCHANY>

Dear All,
please can you help me a Little?
I have download the follow File with azureus from an Torrent:
Dido - Life for Rent FLAC covers CUE chapters www.matroska.org.mka

How can I unpack this File and convert the Songs in Ogg or mp3 - Files
(jpg/tiff for Pictures).
please give me the description in a simple (dummies) English.

Best Regards

Joachim Joppe/Germany
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From moritz at bunkus.org  Thu Mar 31 09:02:52 2005
From: moritz at bunkus.org (Moritz Bunkus)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:02:52 +0200
Subject: [Matroska-general] Use (Unpack) A Matroska - File
In-Reply-To: <424B26B5.000003.00904@KOCHANY>
References: <424B26B5.000003.00904@KOCHANY>
Message-ID: <200503310902.55284.moritz@bunkus.org>

Hey,

> How can I unpack this File and convert the Songs in Ogg or mp3 - Files
> (jpg/tiff for Pictures).
> please give me the description in a simple (dummies) English.

You can use mkvextract from the mkvtoolnix package available at
http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/ It is only a command line
utility though. There's also a GUI for it from someone else available at
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?threadid=73819 but I don't how if
it supports all the features you'd need (CUE sheet and attachment
extraction).

Mosu

-- 
If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage
unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial
nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment
to the commercial growth of prostitution. - Linus Torvalds

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From chris at matroska.org  Thu Mar 31 11:08:51 2005
From: chris at matroska.org (Christian HJ Wiesner)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:08:51 +0200
Subject: [Matroska-general] Use (Unpack) A Matroska - File
In-Reply-To: <200503310902.55284.moritz@bunkus.org>
References: <424B26B5.000003.00904@KOCHANY>
	<200503310902.55284.moritz@bunkus.org>
Message-ID: <424BBE23.3070403@matroska.org>

Moritz Bunkus schrieb:

>Hey,
>  
>
>>How can I unpack this File and convert the Songs in Ogg or mp3 - Files
>>(jpg/tiff for Pictures).
>>please give me the description in a simple (dummies) English.
>>    
>>
>
>You can use mkvextract from the mkvtoolnix package available at
>http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/ It is only a command line
>utility though. There's also a GUI for it from someone else available at
>http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?threadid=73819 but I don't how if
>it supports all the features you'd need (CUE sheet and attachment
>extraction). Mosu
>
First of all, please refrain from telling us where you are obtaining 
your files, we aren't really interested to become witnesses of 'illegal 
actions' ;-) .... Second, doing what Mosu recommends will give you a 
.FLAC lossless compressed file, and i don't know if you are having any 
MP3 compression program that can read FLAC files for the conversion process.

I recommend to use the great foobar2000 player from 
http://www.foobar2000.org , get the special installer with matroska ( 
.mka ) reader plugin. If you download lame.exe, the free command line 
MP3 encoder, from the internet ( Google is your friend ) and put it into 
the main root of the foobar2000 installation folder, it will not only be 
able to play your matroska file, including display of the chapters ( = 
songs ) , but you will also be able to convert either the complete album 
or each song individually to MP3. Of course, Ogg Vorbis is much better 
than MP3 and its latest and best encoder is coming with foobar2000 by 
default, because its free to distribute.

Speaking of the cover files that are attached to the MKA, the most 
easiest way to extract them is to use the matroskaprop.exe program that 
is distributed in our 'matroska full pack' from 
http://packs.matroska.org, our DirectShow playback pack to allow 
matroska playback in Windows Mediaplayer, or any other DirectShow based 
player like Zoomplayer, BSplayer, MPC or TCMP ( The Core Mediaplayer 
http://www.corecoded.com ). For the latter, it still has the best 
support for audio files amongst all DirectShow players, because it will 
list all chapter files ( = songs ) of the album in a simple right click 
in the 'Media Streams' list.

Please note that in the matroska full pack you have to manually activate 
matroskaprop.exe, the shell extension, in the setup configuration 
window. After installing the pack with matroskaprop, you will be able to 
see all file details of matroska files in Windows Explorer, and a right 
click on the file, 'properties' ( = 'Eigenschaften' ) will list all 
attachements the file has and will allow you to extract them.

I hope this was helpful

Best regards

Christian
matroska project admin
http://www.matroska.org

P.S. By chance i know this tracker, and if you had searched a bit harder 
you would have found the same file in an Ogg Vorbis q5 version also ;) ...