First impressions/Music question

[Sarth]

Hi,

Downloaded the linux client last night, and ran it on SuSE 8.0. Everything looks pretty nice at the moment. Only issues that I had are the known ones (fell through the ground a couple of times, and the client crashes if you edit the psclient.cfg to enable the sound renderer). Well done to the developers. I\'ve done a small amount of programming and graphical work, so I can appreciate the amount of work that has already been done here.

I did have a question though ... I play and record music and I was wondering why the developers had made a decision to use MP3\'s as opposed to OGG (eg, for the mainmenu.mp3).

Even ignoring issues such as superior sound quality and smaller soundfiles etc, I would have thought that an open source project would have embraced other open source technology. A missed oppourtunity ?

Although it was good to see the use of some PNG images.

I think I can guess the reason ... but I\'d be interested in an \'official\' response. I do realise that the developers are busy people though ...

Thanks.

[Sarth]

*sighs*

Yeah OK, I\'m an idiot.

Just saw on the Recruitment page that all music samples should be submitted in OGG format.

*cheesy grin* eh, oh well, at least that makes me happier now (although somewhat foolish looking)

[Link]

Glad to see another Suse Fan or User, whatever you are, I love suse but no one else here seems to.

[Sarth]

*blinks*

Eh, I thought Link was supposed to be mean to people !

LOL  

Yeah, I think SuSE is really nice, I got it for the sound side of things, having the low latency kernel and the ALSA 0.9, it\'s served me well so far. Really looking forward to getting 8.1, but the local shop sold out !!! A good sign.

Have just finished recording some OGG sound files for spells, and am sending them off to the Planeshift team now. Hope that some of it is useful to them ...

Might get my pencils out and have a go at some artwork tomorrow. Just had a play with Blender. Does anyone know if Blender is acceptable to create models for Planeshift ?

Hmmm, I think I\'m getting a bit ahead of myself.

[Xandria]

Suse roxors     hehe, j/k

No, really, I tried it on my computer and it was so incredibly awesome that I can\'t wait to free up enough disk space to repartition and use it full time, instead of this thing called W*#$ows that someone calls an OS.

Linux fans unite!!

[Link]

Suse comes with all the linux software you could ever want, so yeah, it takes up like 6gb.

[Sarth]

Xandria wrote:

> I tried it on my computer and it was so incredibly awesome that I can\'t wait to free up enough disk space to repartition and use it full time <

Eh ? How can you have tried SuSE, if you didn\'t have enough disk space to install it in the first place ?

I wasn\'t aware of a version of SuSE you can run of a CD, as you can with Knoppix Linux ...

*wonders*

[Sarth]

Link wrote:

>Suse comes with all the linux software you could ever want, so yeah, it takes up like 6gb.<

Whoa, that\'s a heavy system you\'ve got there Link. My system takes up 3.8 G, and that includes everything I\'ll ever use and heaps I probably don\'t even need (multiple multitrack recorders, KDevelop, full StarOffice, games, movies, etc, etc).

But I agree you\'d definately want to put aside at least 6gb, my partition is 15gb. My stupid Win ME that I never use gobbles up 10 gb, hmmm, got to kill that thing at some stage, or at least take some space off it.

Hmmm, this is getting a bit of topic I guess !
 ?(

As an on topic thing, is it only the linux client that crashes if you enable the sound renderer, or do windows folk suffer the same fate ?

[Link]

Ahh, I\'ve been here long enough that you can get off topic with me, He probably meant he installed suse with minimal installs and didn\'t really have enough space to do anything, but I don\'t know, or he possibly used it on a friends computer. And for the sound. I wouldn\'t really worry about it since there is one mp3 that plays the entire time you have the client running.