user scenario WIN local pacific time trying live plus dvd codec install bugs

[Anonymous]

hi all, linux live curious user here, just trying to provide some bug reports in what seems to be correct method for official releases.

user scenario Windows 10 (so clock uses local time) intel core2duo Dell Latitude E4300 laptop with dock, set to pacific time zone, boot (edit: with Easy2Boot version of agFM on usb to load iso directly from folder on hdd which bypasses fancy boot menus) live 64-bit sysV base or full, try to install dvd codec, see several bugs.

base complains that repos not valid until several hours in the future, control center links time and date utility which seems to be missing (no feedback), tried convoluted cli steps and mostly corrected clock but then can’t find secondary file w64codecs and fails.

full at least has gui to set time zone and clock, but also can’t find w64codecs to complete dvd codec install.

compare to 64-bit sysV MX fluxbox, has gui to set timezone and clock, able to complete codec install, but secondary filename seemed to be w32codecs so maybe that is the fix (edit: maybe this got changed or i misremembered since 9/8 confirmed both say w64codecs) (didn’t have dvd in hand to verify playback works though).

hope that helps, at least educational for me to try both distros to compare approaches.

also while i’m at it, using external tv, it is confusing to figure out where to go to switch from laptop speakers to HDMI tv speakers. MX has more like WIN style tray, but with antiX seems the ascii mixer is most prominent that doesn’t do it… have to look for gui tool (forgot what it is called or where it was), then cycle through tabs to find speaker output option (might not have been in base, maybe only full).

[anticapitalistaForum Admin]

You can set local time when booting live via options in F4 (or set your timezone via F3)
Doesn’t seem convoluted to me.
Thanks

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[Anonymous]

oh oops, I wasn’t expecting to look for timezones during boot menu (edit: with Easy2Boot version of agFM on usb to load iso directly from folder on hdd which bypasses fancy boot menus), sorry, but I already deleted base iso since full adds firefox browser anyway, so that still leaves the other bugs:

base control center still linked to non-existant “time and date”, both base and full when set with accurate enough clock can load repo but still not find the secondary DVD codec companion file w64codecs, which may need to be w32codecs (edit: actually testing 9/8 grabs w64codecs so maybe something changed or I really misread something in log previously) that MX successfully pulls for 64-bit. (I can test dvd playback tomorrow to make sure MX combo packages work, been a long day)

btw if you’re feeling extra, and made builds with/without dvd playback, doubling your builds again… then you could say you’re better than Baskin Robbins since you’d have 32 flavors ???? (jk, srsly 16 builds is a lot! that’s more than enough options ????)

[Anonymous]

sorry didn’t specify but i was using Easy2Boot version of agFM on usb to load iso directly from folder on hdd which bypasses fancy boot menus, so that explains why i didn’t see the timezone option during bootup (which looks nicely done and works from normal boot methods).

trying again with 64-bit antiX full and MX fluxbox, once both have proper timezone set and and repo synced…

antiX still only able to find the libdvdcss2 package but after prepocessing deb-multimedia.org testing(7 variants) and reading state information, shows “E: Unable to locate package w64codecs”.

MX setup one-click codecs installer is able to find both (and seems to add some additional packages but no logs for that method) and play with at least VLC (their S/MPlayer combo was freezing up).

[Xunzi_23Member]

Use caution third party packages can quickly cause issues or break a system, use at your own risk.

A full setup description is available at
http://www.deb-multimedia.org/

One of the users I support has MX, she has never seen any issues with playback, .
Maybe you are making/ or made changes as in antiX without understanding the consequences.

[user_xMember]

timezone option

You can also try
sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
and if I’m not mistaken, then in file /etc/adjtime the third line should be UTC or LOCAL
It sets like

cat /etc/adjtime
sudo hwclock -av --localtime
cat /etc/adjtime

I usually mark “HardwareClock uses Loal time”… while install…And in antiX-22 have LOCAL
However in antiX-23 I had UTC there.
Мaybe I forgot )) and and I don’t have a ntp service in antiX-23 to check whether this matters.
Мaybe I deleted it)

[user_xMember]

also while i’m at it, using external tv, it is confusing to figure out where to go to switch from laptop speakers to HDMI tv speakers.

in antiX-23-base
head -h 15 /etc/asound.conf
I have

#defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.pcm.device 7
#defaults.ctl.card 0

If launch alsamixer
with “M”-key activated only <S/PDIF 1> (green) and <Pre-Amp> setted to 1<>1

in the MX-fluxbox file /etc/asound.conf does not exist. if I’m not mistaken
During a quick research, I deleted all sorts of pulse/pipe and translated it in the same way into alsa.
But I think there was a more thoughtful way.

• This reply was modified 3 years ago by user_x.

[Anonymous]

possible solution: antiX dvd codec packages script should use “bookworm” (stable) not (trixie) “testing” when it adds deb-multimedia.

Xunzi_23 wrote:

Use caution third party packages can quickly cause issues or break a system, use at your own risk.

A full setup description is available at
http://www.deb-multimedia.org/

One of the users I support has MX, she has never seen any issues with playback, .
Maybe you are making/ or made changes as in antiX without understanding the consequences.

i’m not making any changes to antiX, the only test condition difference is bypassing live boot menu options.

once in live os, setting timezone inside base (from cli was challenging and the gui control center shortcut for time date does not open anything) or full (from gui).

after setting timezone and time, was able to refresh repos with the antiX package manager tool without error, search for dvd, check the single box for codecs, and see it end in error message unable to locate one of the packages required: w64codecs.

this process does not work in 64-bit sysV antiX 23 base or full, but works in MX 23 fluxbox control center shortcut to load proprietary codecs.

due to the partnership between the two, i was hoping it would be an easy typo fix in the antiX script… and maybe it is.

i didn’t think to browse to the repo site, but after your suggestion i did, and the site shows now “testing” = “trixie” and so possible solution: antiX dvd codec packages script should use “bookworm” (stable) not (trixie) “testing” when it adds deb-multimedia.

[Xunzi_23Member]

Hi jmichael, think we misunderstand each other a little, final intent was figure out what is going on and
try to ensure you have the codec quickly, antiX devs are attentive to issues mentioned here in the forum and
will fix problems when time is available.

For time and date there is a script which may prove useful. /usr/local/bin/set_time-and_date.sh
A lot of other interesting scripts are in same place. Good for learning and reusing code snippets :-).
The package installer is in /bin and not so easily readable.

[Anonymous]

confirmed by looking further again today, based on package lists at http://deb-multimedia.org/pool/main

specifically the missing w64codecs package found in http://deb-multimedia.org/dists/stable/non-free/binary-amd64

the likely also missing w32codecs package found in http://deb-multimedia.org/dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386

fix for antiX dvd codec packages script will be to use “bookworm” (stable) not (trixie) “testing” when it adds deb-multimedia.org to sources, because w64codecs and w32codecs is not in “testing” (trixie) but is in “stable” (bookworm) non-free.

thanks for @xunzi_23 pointing in the best direction for the fix.

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