[NTLUG:Discuss] Sempron discussion after Sep 18 meeting

[Pat Regan]

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Ralph Green, Jr wrote:

> Howdy,

Howdy!

>   At the lunch after the meeting today, there was a brief discussion
> about the new AMD Sempron.  The question raised was whether it was a
> cheap way to get a Linux system with a 64 bit processor.  The answer to
> that is pretty much no.
>

Thank you for pointing this out.  When I saw word of the Sempron, I just
ignored it thinking "eh, a new Duron" :p.  Interesting that the high end
Sempron is a castrated Athlon 64 :).

>   There was also a question about the French program for transcoding
> DVDs to Xvid videos that I had read about.  It is called FairUse
> Wizard.  It is not appropriate for use by someone in the US, because the
> DMCA took away some of your fair use rights.  It should be safe to
> mention, since, as I understand it, the author no longer allows it to be
> downloaded like he used to.
>

I've been using Video::Dvdrip for a year or so now, and it works very
well.  It seems you guys are all mostly Slackware fans, but there is a
copy in Christian Marillat's Debian repository.  :)

http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/

It's a gui frontend to transcode and friends.  Works really nice for the
clipping and resizing.

Pat