On Friday 04 June 2010 17:31:13 Sanket Shah wrote:
Well the avg user will hav a shifty set of speakers and no requirement... and I was talking in their regards only. High end stuff would mean better skills and hence other softies, the noob user doesn't mix audio or do shitload video edits... they want something that plays songs,
Never had a problem playing songs and i did not have to do anything other than apt-get install. That too because of sw patents. several codecs cant be packaged due to software patents, including libdvdcss, for which one developer had to go to jail.
blends with portable players,
Dont tell me your player does not have a/v out.
loads pics
it always does. Automounting a fat fs always worked.
and videos frm devices and such stuff.
A/v out again.
Highend multimedia works is a totally diff thing and not in question here...
Syncing devices on Linux is still a nightmare. Even android phones based on Linux are not easily synced with Linux. This is the basic stuff people require bfr doing audio video mixing and other "professional" stuff...
My Moto a780 syncs perfectly since the day i bought it in 2007. And a friends Sony ericson (at least 2 of them) and dozemobile models worked equally well No, I did not do anything at all except apt-get install. But i avoid like the plague crappy labels especially Sony for a/v devices, with their stupid non standard form factor cards, pointless magic byte protocols and root kits. Invariably the guys who advertise the most are the worst.
The only thing that never worked for me was the HP2400c scanner and a bluetooth dongle. Both of which works for the rest of the world on linux. I did manage to scan b/w with a cli as root, with a cold start of the scanner for every page.
Compare this with XP failing to boot (reboots all the while) on a perfectly stable ASU+ AMD mobo. And absolutely no way to correct it.