Final softwares befor migration – 3453 days old

[wesblake]

Hi everyone. Getting ready for the final migration to Linux for good, but I need a few more replacements for stuff in Windows I can't find. First of all, does anyone know Linux alternatives to the following Windows software:

PhotoStitch
CloneCD
MP3Gain (I found clues on the web that they have this progie for linux, but couldn't find it)
Easy Video Joiner
MP3 Collector

No of course I'd rather just get an alternative, but if there isn't any for some of these, I can just wine them. Thus my second question. I subscribed to WineX to play my games. Can this be used like wine to run these programs too, or am I better off getting the regular wine as well? Thanks.
Oh, one more thing. I installed the Mozilla Xine plugin for streaming videos, works great, but now my browser trys to open .rpm files with xine. How can I fix this so it asks me to save these file types again?

[BobGuy]

PhotoStitch
CloneCD
MP3Gain
Easy Video Joiner
MP3 Collector

Got any urls for those?
I don't do windows so I can only guess what they do.

Yup its late here and I'm gonna hit the sack, so googling those is not in the cards for this morning.

PhotoStitch and CloneCD can be done at the command line, although there is most likely GUI apps that do those like gimp and eroaster.

Is there something special about CloneCD?

[wesblake]

Sorry, didn't even think to note what these programs are.

PhotoStitch takes my digital camera pics when I took multiple pictures for a panorama shot, and "stitches" them together to make the panorama shot.

CloneCD just makes a bit for bit copy of a cd. Not that important, and perhaps k3b already does this? (That's what I've been using in linux)

MP3Gain I can't live without. It's a free utility that will process mp3's so that the gain levels match, and remove clipping when possible. (No, not to process downloaded mp3's, Between my roomie and I, we actually owned around 4000 cd's, so we ripped them all, but I'm still processing them for these things. )
http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/

Easy Video Joiner - Joins video files
http://www.doeasier.org/joiner/

MP3 Collector is great too, I point it to my mp3 folder, and it makes a very nice listing of my collection.
http://www.collectorz.com/mp3/

Like I said, I can always use wine, but If I can get around it, I'd rather be using linux programs.

[Grogan]

You're unlikely to be able to run something like Clone CD under Wine. I doubt the WINE APIs are going to give you access to the kernel's methods.

If I were you, I'd probably keep a Windows installation around. I do... even though I'm extremely comfortable with and could get along with Linux only. It's not really a choice I have to make, because it can coexist with Windows nicely.

[Case]

If you were going to keep a Windows install around, I'd go with '98 version 2. Still one of their best, imo. I have a '98 partition just for CloneCD myself . . .

[wesblake]

That's fine, I'm not too woried about CloneCd, since I only use it maybe 2 times a year, and I'm keeping a Windows partition still for games anyways. But still I'd like to move as much as I can to Linux, so I don't have to rely on Windows as much, less rebooting. So.....how about the others, are there any alternative to those? I actually ran into references to MP3Gain for linux again, but still can't find the download.
My main goal was to get Windows to games only because I figure the more I use Linux, the more I'll learn. Thanks.

[BobGuy]

PhotoStitch takes my digital camera pics when I took multiple pictures for a panorama shot, and "stitches" them together to make the panorama shot.

I'm sure gimp can do that, but when I want a quick 'stitch' without opening gimp I just do that using the run command.

convert - converts an input file using one image format to an output file with the same or differing image format. See 'man convert' for more info.

convert [ options ... ] file [ file... ] file

convert +append <the left file> <the right file> <the new file name>
convert +append one.jpg two.jpg wide.jpg
convert +append linux.jpg linux1.jpg wide-linux.jpg

convert -append <the top file> <the bottom file> <the new file name>
convert -append one.jpg two.jpg wide.jpg
convert -append linux.jpg linux1.jpg wide-linux.jpg

wide-linux.jpg is the result of the two 'stitched' together files, I always use a different file name so as to not overwrite the originals.

To 'stitch' more that two together at once:
convert +append <the left file> <the middle files> <the right file> <the new file name>

convert -append <the top file> <the middle files> <the bottom file> <the new file name>

You get the idea, You can do this with gif png and other formats as long as they are all the same format, ie, jpg png etc.

NOTE: All the input images must have the same width or height. Images of the same width are stacked top-to-bottom. Images of the same height are stacked left-to-right. Use +append to stack rectangular images left-to-right.

Say that you find a piece of wallpaper, tux.png, that you really like, but its 1600x1200 in size, and you use 1024x768 as your desktop resolution.

No problem just cd to the directory where the wallpaper is and issue:
convert -geometry 1024x768 tux.png tux1.png

Now you have a new reduced wallpaper size 1204x768 named tux1.png, and the original tux.png, all without opening up a GUI image manipulating application.

For other sizes use:
convert -geometry 640x480 wallpaper.jpg wallpaper1.jpg
convert -geometry 800x600 wall.jpg wall3.jpg

Just remember to give the new pix a different name or it would overwrite the original one in the same directory.

For a quick screen shot. Use the run command, alt+F2 for these.

xwd | convert - ~/some.png <------just the active window
xwd -root | convert - ~/some.png <--full screen.

the ~/ is shorthand for /home/bob, in my case I use that otherwise the command would look like this:

xwd | convert - /home/bob/xchat.png

Using the run command, I can get these tasks done faster than it takes for the gimp to load into memory.

[wesblake]

Thanks BobGuy, but actually what I'm talking about is a little more complicated, it actually stitches to gether the photos using matching pixels and adjusts levels so if the pic edges don't like up just right, well, like this program:
http://vrm.vrway.com/issue13/NEW_AUT..._SOFTWARE.html
Scroll down the page to see examples of what I'm saying. That isn't out yet, what I'm talking about only does side by side as of now rather than a whole group, and you have to tell it which ones go where, but you get the idea.

I have another issue now though. I installed Photoshop with wine. When I was using Redhat, I simply added a menu item that ran the command:
wine "~daho/.wine/c/Program Files/Adobe/Photoshop 7.0/Photoshop.exe" and it worked. I tried that in Mandrake (still on KDE though) and it won't work. I just get a hourglass for in my taskbar for awhile, then it goes away. Any ideas?

[BobGuy]

wine "~daho/.wine/c/Program Files/Adobe/Photoshop 7.0/Photoshop.exe"

Never tried-used wine, but try this command and see if it works.
wine "~/daho/.wine/c/Program Files/Adobe/Photoshop 7.0/Photoshop.exe"

Looks to me like its missing the / in ~/daho so the path may not be correct.

CloneCD just makes a bit for bit copy of a cd. Not that important, and perhaps k3b already does this? (That's what I've been using in linux)

k3b should be able to make a copy of a cd, thats rather standard stuff anymore.

You can always use the command line to make a copy of a cd in your current working directory using this command after you mount your cd or cd-r:

dd if=/dev/scd0 of=filename.iso

So if you wanted to make a copy of your mandrake V 9.2 installation cd.
You would use these commands.

dd if=/dev/scd0 of=mandrake9.2.iso

That'll make an exact duplicate of any cd disk. (CD-ROM) then you just burn the .iso file to disk with this command. (CD-R/RW)
cdrecord -v speed=18 dev=0,0,0 -data mandrake9.2.iso

speed=the burning speed you want or what the burner will do.
dev=the LUN numbers which should be listed in any burning app such as k3b

-data as opposed to a -audio cd.
mandrake9.2.iso what you will label this cd, its got to have a name.

Unmount the cd-r when you are done.

NEW AUTOSTITCH PANORAMA SOFTWARE

Yes it looks good to me so far, to bad it's not available yet.

For now, they're hoping an outside company will license the software and develop it further for commercial use.

They are hoping?
If this was open source software it would probably be out by now for your enjoyment.
They did some programing and now they want to be millionaires, greed springs eternal.