AV LINUX 6.0.2 - XFCE4 4.10 RELEASE NOTES 1
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1. AV LINUX 6 0 2 XFCE4 4 10 RELEASE NOTES Changelog from AV Linux 6 0 1b 6 0 2 Complete new Customized XFCE4 4 10 Desktop Environment Panel Plugins Nautilus Thunar optional NOTE XFCE4 4 10 is not compatible with XFCE4 4 6 Desktop and Goodies Packages in Debian Squeeze repos Xorg 1 7 7 3 deb7u1 from Debian Wheezy Completely revamped User Manual and added bookmarked links and new content Supplemental Supported Hardware PDF by Piklik thanks Added pipelight multi to support Silverlight 5 1 in Web Browsers ie Netflix requires installation of AV Linux with ext4 partitions Added wine compholio to support pipelight multi Added Polyphone Soundfont Editor Added OpenAV Productions Fabla LV2 Added OpenAV Productions ArtyFX LV2 Added OpenAV Productions Luppp Added Complete X42 Plugins LV2 collection by Robin Gareus Added Zam Plugins LV2 s by Damien Zammit Added falkTX s carla plugins lv2 LV2 s includes ZynAddSubFX LV2 Added jackutils scripts to auto start A2JMIDID and the Aloop Daemon with Qjackctl Added Hauppauge HVR 1950 firmware for OOTB Video Capture support Added delayed auto start for the Wbar Dock to launch correctly at login Added Rockhopper s makesfz Nautilus Script Added Rockhopper s makeh2kit Nautilus Script Added Rockhopper s unzip sfark Nautilus Script Nautilus Scripts can be added with Settings gt Nautilus scripts manager Add2. For supporting media transfer to Android Tablets and Smartphones tested with Samsung Galaxy S4 Updated Non Things to recent GIT Updated Qtractor to 0 5 11 Updated SetBfree to 0 7 5 Updated sfarkxtm to recent GIT Updated Triceratops LV2 to 0 1 7 Updated Vee One LV2 s to 0 3 5 Updated Wine to 1 6 1 with RT patches INFO ON RUNNING AV LINUX 6 0 2 LIVE Wine Mono and Gecko Prompts When the LiveDVD initially logs in to the desktop you will be immediately greeted by 2 Wine related dialogs asking about installing Mono and Gecko extensions even before the Desktop Fully loads There is absolutely no reason to install these on a Live session so simply click Cancel on both 2 Wine Mono Installer ax Wine could not Find 4 Mono package which is needed For WET applications to work correctly Wine can automatically download and install it For you Note it is recommended to use your distribution s packages instead See BERG iki winehg org Mono For details Wine Gecko Installer Wine could not Find 4 Gecko package which is needed For applications embedding HTML to work correctly Wine can automatically download and install it For you Mote it is recommended to use your distribution s packages instead See http j iwiki winehq orgtisecko For details Cancel Install Selecting an Internet Connection Usually when running Live it is required to enable an available Internet Connection
3. To do this simply go in the Menu to Accessories gt Root Terminal and enter the Following commands adduser tester lp adduser tester lLpadmin Following this step you will need to log back out and log back in for the user permissions to take effect Select Log Out from the Live Session User button on the far right of the XFCE4 Panel at the top right corner of your screen When you log back in tester will be pre entered as the user name and you will need to enter live as the password Now you should be able to set up and use your HP printer from the HPLIP Device Setup AV LINUX 6 0 2 POST INSTALL NOTES Enabling Pipelight Multi for Netflix and other DRM Web Content The pipelight multi browser plugin used for viewing Microsoft Silverlight 5 1 and other DRM web content is disabled on the LiveDVD by default because the Filesystem used for a Live system differs from the filesystem used if AV Linux is installed to a hard drive To use pipelight multi Following an install it is important to note that ext4 should be selected For the Filesystem on the formatted partitions that AV Linux will be installed to both root and home Other than that it is necessary that the Web Browser used to view DRM Silverlight content ie Netflix has a User Agent Switcher plugin installed AV Linux 6 0 2 comes with a special install of Google Chrome that has this already enabled The only step required by the user is to open
4. a Root Terminal enter your Root password and enable the pipelight multi plugins of your choosing by copying and pasting or entering the commands shown here To enable Silverlight the most common option pipelight plugin enable silverlight To enable Flash only suggested if the Linux Flash Browser plugin isn t sufficient You may need to disable existing non pipelight Flash plugins in your Browser pipelight plugin enable flash Pipelight also supports other plugins like Shockwave and Unity3D but they are outside the intentions of this document for Full information on all supported plugins see this webpage http Fds team de cms pipelight installation html section 4 MPORTANT Harrison Mixbus LV2 Demo Plugins Info As on AV Linux 6 0 1b the LV2 Plugins provided with the Harrison Mixbus demo have been moved out of the Mixbus bundle and installed system wide in usr lib lv2 This is so the plugins can be used and evaluated with other hosts that support them Ardour VST 3 and JALV are tested other hosts may also work This should not create any problems however if you upgrade Harrison Mixbus to a newer version it will complain of duplicate LV2 s in usr lib lv2 and in the updated Harrison Mixbus bundle IF you want to remove the Harrison LV2 s From usr lib lv2 carefully use the Following commands in a Root Terminal 1 Change to the correct directory for recursive removal of the plugin lv2 Folders cd usr lib lv2 2 Re
5. by left clicking on the Network Manager Applet found in the Tray area of the XFCE4 panel upper right hand corner of screen Auto Ethernet is shown in this example Selecting a Terminal Emulator IF you require a terminal during a Live session you will need to select a default Terminal Emulator It is suggested to use lxterminal which requires manual selection BS Choose Preferred Application amp O X Please choose your preferred Terminal Emulator now and click OK to proceed Debian X Terminal Emulator X Terminal EY Choose a custom Terminal Emulal Specify the application you want to use as default Terminal Emulator for Xfce teint e cancel af OK New defaults when running JACK with Qjackctl AV Linux now has Qjackctl auto start two very important helper applications A2JMIDID and Aloop Daemon These helper apps are set up to run concurrently after JACK starts and thus will cause a Few seconds of delay when JACK is started With these scripts running you can use ALSA and JACK apps at the same time and both ALSA and JACK MIDI devices will be available to the system JACK Audio Connection Kit deFfaulk Started b gt start Wsp X Quit Ls Messages Session Se Dk Pie 3 Connect DdPatchbay kg lt 4 La J La About IF For some reason you do not wis
6. ed AJ Snapshot UI a graphical Zenity script to easily save and retrieve aj snapshots Added Mididings MIDI Routing Utility Added Asunder CD Ripper Added exfat fuse to manually mount FAT64 drives ie newer large SDCard devices Added samba to Facilitate Network file sharing Added Nautilus share to enhance and simplify Network file sharing Updated Ardour to 3 5 143 Updated ArdourVST to 3 5 143 Updated Ardour Harvid Binaries to 0 7 3 Updated linuxDSP Plugin Demos to their latest versions Updated Audacity to 2 0 5 Updated Blender to 2 69 Updated all liburnia libraries used by Brasero for disc burning to 1 3 2 Updated Calf Plugins from GIT with new Sidechaining and experimental plugins Updated CAPS LADSPA Plugins to 0 9 16 Updated FalkTX s Carla Plugin host to 1 2 3 Updated Clementine Music Player to 1 2 Updated dispcalgui to 1 5 3 1 Updated FalkTX s DISTRHO Plugins to latest releases Updated faust to 0 9 46 2 Updated FFADO FireWire Drivers to 2 1 0 SVN2462 Updated Guitarix to 0 28 3 Updated HarmonySeg to 0 16 Updated Harrison Mixbus demo to 2 4 includes a fixed version of the XT BC LV2 plugin Updated HPLIP to 3 13 10 Updated JALV 1 4 2 patched by Robin Gareus to run LV2 s with External Ul s ie linuxDSP Updated LibreOffice to 4 1 3 2 Updated LiVES Video Editor to 2 2 2 Updated Entire LV2 support stack to latest releases Updated MTP support libs
7. ery 100ms Mixer Strip Phase Invert Solo Safe Solo Isolated Comments v Meter Point Use narrow strips in the mixer by default Metering Peak hold time medium DPM Fall ofF moderate 13 3dB sec EBU Digi PPM IRT Digi PPM Meter line up level OdBu 18dBFS EBU BBC IEC1 DIN Meter line up level OdBu 15dBFS DIN VU Meter standard OVU 4dBu standard Peak threshold dBFS LED meter style Setting VST Path for Festige The Festige program loads Windows VST Audio plugins as standalones using Wine it can t have it s plugin path pre configured for the LiveDVD so you will need to set it manually You will need to set it once per Live session however if AV Linux 6 0 2 is installed you only will need to set this the first time you use Festige To set the path make sure you have JACK running and launch Festige and select File gt Preferences and set usr local lib vst as your Windows VST Path FeSlige Settings Main Paths Advanced Extra VST Paths fusrf local lib vst arn Pene Remove Edit Note that recursive search is supported No need For extra Folders here Outro WINEPREFIX home tester wine lt 5 Reset Default Ladish Folder home tester ladish festige lt 5 Reset Cancel Printing from the LiveDVD To use HPLIP for printing with a supported HP Printer on the LiveDVD you need to First add tester the Live user to the lp and lpadmin groups
8. h Qjackctl to run these you can switch them off by clicking the Setup button and going to the Option tab and deselecting the checkboxes illustrated below and then restarting Qjackctl Note that disabling these scripts in this way can be done both on a Live session and after installing AV Linux i Setup JACK Audio Connection Kit 20x Settings Options Display Misc Scripting Execute script on Startup 7 Execute script after Startup ust bin start_jackutils sh Execute script on Shutdown a Execute script after Shutdown _ ust bin stop_jackutils sh Statistics wf Capture standard output RUN detection regex xrun of at least 0 9 msecs Connections _ Activate Patchbay persistence Logging Messages logfile gjackctl log Cancel Setting the Font Scaling on Ardour 3 Ardour VST 3 defaults it s Font scaling to 80 on some systems this will appear very small to adjust this go to the Edit menu in Ardour VST 3 select Preferences and in the GUI tab move the slider to the size you desire Misc Transport Editor Audio Solo mute MIDI Userinteraction Control Surfaces Video GUI Graphically indicate mouse pointer hovering over various widgets Show tooltips if mouse hovers over a control F nt scaling SPIES ARS ER r E L a Pe IT ERE a E A a AE aE aE A A DIN I E A REST E E RE e A AA SHORE OR TERR OES update transport clock display every 40ms instead of ev
9. int For example only your system may differ mount t exfat fuse dev sdci media camera Enabling Extra Nautilus Scripts By default AV Linux 6 0 2 comes with some handy administration Nautilus Scripts ready to use there are some very useful extra scripts for that can be added by using Settings gt Nautilus scripts manager To add a script to the Nautilus Scripts menu simply tick off the checkbox for any available scripts you wish to add Nautilus scripts manager OX Active Script Position O Remove Spaces from Filenames in this Folder Remove Spaces from Filenames i Convert image to JPG Convert image to JPG Auto Thumbnail Auto Thumbnail Open with gedit Open with gedit Scale Image to Preset Sizes Scale Image to Preset Sizes Scale Image Scale Image Make an MPEG Video From the pictures in this folder Make an MPEG Video From the p All scripts must be installed in usr share nautilus scripts To make changes effective you may have to close and restart Nautilus i About EJ ouit
10. move the specific Harrison plugin lv2 Folders from the usr lib lv2 Folder you changed to in Step 1 rm r 3D delay lv2 dyno mite lv2 gvplus lv2 XT BC lv2 XT EQ lv2 XT MC lv2 XT ME lv2 Mounting FAT64 SDCards with exfat fuse Some recent high capacity SDCards used in digital cameras and camcorders ie Zoom Q2 HD are formatted with a relatively new Filesystem known as FAT64 AV Linux 6 0 2 includes exfat Fuse which can be used to mount these filesystems since FAT64 is Fairly new there is not yet support for automatically mounting these types of partitions so for now exfat fuse must be used from the command line The Following example assumes that the FAT64 SDCard is in a device connected by USB to the computer in order to mount it we need to know the drive location and number ie dev sdc1 hint use Gparted to examine all drives and determine the SDCard by it s size and then we need to create a mount point for the Files on the SDCard to be made visible to the computer s File manager A common practice is to create a mount point in the media Folder of the File System For example to create a mount point called camera on the system you would create a Folder in media from the Root Terminal like this mkdir media camera Now that we have a mount point we then mount the USB connected SDCard with this command which assumes that dev sdc1 is your SDCard in a USB camera device or USB card reader and that media camera is the mount po
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