[SWLUG] BMP to JPG

[Julian Hall]

Hi All,

I'm new to the group (and to Linux :)).  Recently installed Mandrake 9.0
alongside Windows 2000 and it's all going OK at last.  Wine is being a
bit of a sod, but that's doesn't work too well alongside Windows 200
anyway apparently :)

I have a couple of questions though I hope you can answer:

1.  With option 2 quoted below, could you use a wildcard, for example:

cjpeg *.bmp > *.jpg

Thereby converting a whole directory of files in one sweep?

2.  DVD playback.  I've had all kinds of aggravation getting Xine to
play DVDs (it did when I installed MDK 9.0 originally without
complaint!) and eventually switched to Ogle.  However the audio is a bit
scratchy and in Windows that's usually attributable to the DVD drive
being in PIO mode not DMA.

How do I check this in Linux, and alter if necessary?

Kind regards,

Julian

On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 09:26, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 07:54:36PM +0100 or thereabouts, justin at discordia.org.uk wrote:
>  
> > 1. As already stated, 'convert' from the ImageMagick packages.
> > which will also let you transform, scale, draw on, and just about
> > anything else you could ever want to do in a shell script.
> 
> Other nice capability from ImageMagick. 
> 
> In ~/.mailcap, I have,
> 
> # From Laurel on Linuxchix for lynx and pictures
> image/jpeg; display '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"
> image/gif;  display '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"
> image/png;  display '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"
> 
> Run Lynx in X, follow a link to a file that's a picture, and
> instead of "it's a picture, download or cancel?" prompt get
> an ImageMagick window with the pic in it.
> 
> I actually find myself typing "display somefile.jpg" instead
> of starting gimp or pho or xv or gqview or whatever these days: 
> way faster!
> 
> > 2. the netpbm-progs toolset,  using bmptoppm and ppmtojpeg
> > eg.  bmptoppm one.bmp | ppmtojpeg > one.jpg
> > and you can slot in any of the other ppm,pbm,pgm tools you want
> > 
> > 3. The tools from libjpeg
> > eg.  cjpeg one.bmp > one.jpg 
> 
> Hadn't met that one. Handy.
> 
> Telsa
> 
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