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    From Doug Laidlaw@2:250/1 to All on Fri Aug 2 04:07:58 2019
    I have just discovered a file /etc/video_format with the value "NTSC."
    The Australian TV standard is PAL, but the current setting doesn't seem
    to cause any problems. I don't have a TV card. Should I change the file?

    Doug.

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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Fri Aug 2 05:35:20 2019
    On Thu, 01 Aug 2019 23:07:58 -0400, Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> wrote:

    I have just discovered a file /etc/video_format with the value "NTSC."
    The Australian TV standard is PAL, but the current setting doesn't seem
    to cause any problems. I don't have a TV card. Should I change the file?

    It's only used by the program dvdauthor, and will only matter if you
    use it to create a video dvd to play in a vcr. The computer doesn't
    care which format is used. Only real vcr players care.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Fri Aug 2 09:07:21 2019
    On 8/2/19 1:07 PM, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
    I have just discovered a file /etc/video_format with the value "NTSC."
    The Australian TV standard is PAL, but the current setting doesn't seem
    to cause any problems.  I don't have a TV card.  Should I change the file?

    Doug.

    My use of Kdenlive until recently gave little choice and the majority of conversions favored NTSC 30fps

    My edited TV dumped to USB stick for a neighbor cause no problem with
    her digital TV.
    I now specify "DVD Widescreen PAl" in the defaults.
    It still makes no difference. And I did anguish over it, pointlessly,
    for some years

    My /etc/video_format says NTSC too, I could change it to PAL and see
    what dies.

    This is a region "thing" I bang up against regularly.

    Libre Office always defaults to Letter and not A4

    K3b initializes with

    System locale charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968
    Your system's locale charset (i.e. the charset used to encode filenames)
    is set to ANSI_X3.4-1968. It is highly unlikely that this has been done intentionally. Most likely the locale is not set at all. An invalid
    setting will result in problems when creating data projects.
    Solution: To properly set the locale charset make sure the LC_*
    environment variables are set. Normally the distribution setup tools
    take care of this.


    My appropriate variables are

    LC_ALL=en_AU.UTF-8
    LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
    LANGUAGE=en_AU.UTF-8:en_US:en < this one ???


    Any further involvement probably involves starting a new career, like a permissions problem I ran into yesterday.
    I really didn't have the heart.


    Maybe Mageia 7 is better


    regards


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