Comments on: Asus Eee and AVI Audio Weirdness

By: Manuel Viloria

Manuel Viloria — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:00:49 +0000

Streaming/YouTube was fine, Jeffrey. I tested it using the WiFi access in Galleria.

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:00:20 +0000

Sir Manny,

How is your streaming and youtube experience with eee? Was it choppy?

By: Manuel Viloria

Manuel Viloria — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:02:02 +0000

No prob, Jeffrey... I'm still in the early experimental stage with Linux. Let's chat more about this in the coming days. See you around!

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:56:04 +0000

Hi Sir Manuel... I am HelloWorld and I never thought you'll be able to trace me. LOL. Thanks to IP addresses.

Asus eeePC is good gadget but I really don't think that Xandros is a suitable OS for a 900mhz and 512mb RAM machine. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think Xandros is using a modified KDE desktop environment which I read is kinda a CPU and memory hog compared to Gnome or XFCE desktop environment.

I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 6 (Gnome) right now on an IBM ThinkPad R30 (celeron coppermine 800mhz, 768mb RAM) and it still a bit sluggish.

Catch you up one of these days via exchange.

By: Manuel Viloria

Manuel Viloria — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:10:17 +0000

Thanks, HelloWorld! I have some more questions. Please email me via Exchange.

By: HelloWorld

HelloWorld — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:15:40 +0000

Hi Manuel

I have the same problem with .AVI on Linux (Ubuntu). My walk around is to install a diffrent player like vlc or mplayer. The default media player fo ubuntu, Totem, is also better using totem-xine plugin instead of totem-gstreamer.

If you're still playing with your eeePC, you can try to insall Xubuntu on it. Please see this link http://eeepc.tumblr.com/post/21408625 and here's a nice article about it http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2008/02/28/issue-10-released.

By: Manuel Viloria

Manuel Viloria — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:56:05 +0000

Thanks for the useful tip, Angelo. I'll ask the salespeople about that recovery DVD. I tested the unedited, straight from the MMC/SD .AVI on Linux (Asus Eee). The same .AVI plays and sounds all right on a regular desktop running WinXP.

By: jangelo

jangelo — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:07:55 +0000

Thanks for the link, Manuel. Asus bundles in a recovery DVD, so you can always reinstall the Xandros Linux bundled in with the unit, as long as you have a USB optical drive. If Xandros is still intact (meaning the UnionFS partition is untouched/unchanged), then you can revert to factory settings by pressing and holding F9 during bootup.

Re the .AVI problems maybe it's the audio codecs used. Did you test it on Windows XP or on Linux?