Psychopathy:
Primary: 1.4, 16.15%
Secondary: 1.3, 2.78%

Narcissism: 5/40

You probably aren't finding tutorials because "program an MP4" is not a phrasing that makes sense to most people. What do you want the program to do, exactly? What will appear on the screen when you run it? Does it do anything in response to keyboard or mouse input, and what? What will get stored on the hard drive?

Please consider explaining what you mean, without repeating the same sentence over and over, because that will not help us understand you. If you again respond to this post with something substantially similar to "I want to program/code an MP4 file...", I'm personally going to give up and stop participating in this thread because it's clear I'm not able to help you, and I'm afraid others might do the same.

I really don't understand what you're saying. MP4 is not a programming language. It's just a linear, non-interactive stream of data. If you really want to learn codecs, you're best off starting really, really small. First figure out how bitmaps are stored. Then basic lossless compression (RLE, PNG/GIF, etc.). Then JPEG. Then some very early, very simple lossy codecs. MPEG4/H264 is insanely complicated (and that's not including the audio). It can take literally years to get up to speed with this stuff.

So you're talking about creating animations? That's one thing. Actually decoding (or encoding) a codec like MPEG is not something you want to be trying to do from scratch at this stage. (I'm not sure very many of us here even know how to do that.) Better just use a program or library for that part.

Quote from: Ephraim Becker on November 20, 2015, 02:05:12 PMI'm very confused about CORS. If CORS allows you to request other sites, then why can't I. I'm only able to do this in IE 11 locally.

The way I understand it, the site you're trying to request content from has to set up their web server to send a header that tells the browser it's okay to receive requests from your site. Unless you own the remote site you're requesting from, that's probably not going to happen.

What in particular was wrong with some of the solutions people suggested in other threads? I may have overlooked something, but it seems like I keep reading about you running into various problems, solving them, but without saying anything at all about how you solved them, whether the suggestions people gave you are helpful, or exactly what you're trying to do right now. Without that information, we are all completely in the dark.

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on November 18, 2015, 06:44:33 AM
Wait, when was this? I know that until September 2001 ticalc.org was affiliated with TI, but not anymore. I wonder if TI ever e-mailed TI-Planet for help?

It was a couple of years ago, about 2012. It just sort of happened in the middle of nowhere.
We've occasionally had people email us with questions saying that TI Cares referred them to us, as well. So it seems that not all of TI pretends that ticalc.org doesn't exist.

I don't remember if I ever told anyone this story, but a tech from TI support once got a customer calc question and emailed us at ticalc.org for help. 

It doesn't seem to work for me. I have to always load it separately before the mount -o loop or losetup commands work.

Yeah, reinstalling is probably the easiest way for now while you're still learning your way around, even if it wouldn't be strictly necessary if you knew what was wrong and how to fix it.

One good idea is to write down (or keep in a text file somewhere) everything you do on the system as root or with sudo, so if something breaks you can retrace your steps and try to figure out what you might have done to cause it. It also gives you a list of things to redo if you have to reinstall or switch to another distro so you don't have to figure it all out again. I wish I had done that on my current Arch desktop system; I plan to get back into that habit when I change to some other distro which I'm planning to do someday because rolling release doesn't seem to work well for me.



The recommended way to make modules load automatically on boot on Arch-based systems is described here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_modules#Automatic_module_handling
Basically, you make a file in /etc/modules-load.d/ and list the modules you want. Putting "brcmsmac" on a line in one of these files ought to work. On my Arch desktop right now, I have '/etc/modules-load.d/custom.conf' which I created and just threw things in:

# Load extra needed modules that aren't loaded automatically

loop
#uvesafb
#acpi_cpufreq
vboxdrv
vboxnetflt
vboxnetadp

Lines starting with # are ignored; the rest are modules I wanted loaded on boot because they don't load automatically for whatever reason. (In case you're curious, 'loop' is the module that allows mounting and accessing things like the contents of ISO and disk image files directly as if they were actually on a disk in my system, the 'vbox...' stuff is drivers for VirtualBox (lets me run other OSes in virtual machines from inside the main OS), and the commented-out lines are apparently stuff I was once fooling around with and decided I didn't need (I might as well delete those).



Can't really answer the backlight thing since I've never really had to mess with ACPI stuff much.

I like the font. I had forgotten that downloadable web fonts were a thing.

This was sort of odd (but minor): I received an email notification that I was mentioned, and it pointed to the right post, but the wording is a bit strange:

QuoteDJ Omnimaga mentioned you in the post "StarTrek, you have been mentioned at a post in CodeWalrus", you can view the post at https://codewalr.us/index.php?msg=23900

Clearly, the title of the post isn't "StarTrek, you have been mentioned at a post in CodeWalrus" Unless I'm missing something here.

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on October 14, 2015, 01:10:12 PM
@Travis I agree. That said, like I mentioned before, it seems like we will never change some people's opinions about each other site. The best step would be to at least do the first thing you said (use the mindset that neither side is right nor wrong) then ignore haters.

Quote from: utz on October 14, 2015, 10:23:33 AM
I'd say the best solution for the time being is to simply ignore the rantings from the Ceme and Omni folks. It's not like that stuff has any major impact on CW, they're only hurting themselves. And other than that, the recent post numbers speak for themselves.

Yeah, I think that's the other thing. Criticism is going to be unavoidable, but if the site is successful anyway, it shouldn't be something to worry about. (Ever wish you had a dollar for every time someone ever criticized/accused Microsoft/TI/Google/etc. of something? and yet look how successful (not necessarily "good", just successful) they continue to be ) They just seem to ignore the criticism (sometimes irritatingly so, as we all know ) and just keep doing what they're doing unless it actually starts to cause them to lose money/market share.

Quote from: aeTIos on October 14, 2015, 05:36:38 AM
Any idea on how to break the circle? I'd very much like to get on better terms with the rest of our mother communities (cemetech included). I feel like we're seen as traitors, which I didn't wanna be. Is it wrong to make a place for yourself?

My best guess right now is that it would probably be necessary for both sides to set aside their notions of which side is "right" or "wrong", try to figure out and understand the other side's point of view, and then work from there to figure out a solution. Which I know doesn't tend to be the easiest thing in the world to do when one is on one of those sides. That may also require mutual cooperation and motivation from both sides as well rather than just one.

From watching both sides, this is what I see:

The Omnimaga side can't figure out what they're doing wrong and feel as though people from CW are coming out and causing trouble and blaming them.
The CW side can't figure out what they're doing wrong and feel as though people from Omnimaga are coming out and causing trouble and blaming them.

See the pattern? I suspect this is why this just keeps going in cycles and never ends.

Nice. Seemed a bit glitchy, though, or is that what their chat channel normally looks like? Looks like there's more GDQ videos for me to catch up on now., too I've also seen the arbitrary code execution hack of SMW a while back. These are really cool to watch because they're just like what happened with the TI-81 to execute user-supplied machine code. That's what they remind me of.