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What about 3D-films with HTC Vive?!

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For some reason I cant see my ships when I zoom in, otherwise the game has no bugs. I'm running it on radeonsi and Mesa 11.3.0-devel

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Quoting: omer666Maybe it's when you see what the enemy sees as you're playing. Quite unplayable if you ask me :P

That's how it should be. As to the playability, depends on the kind of game I suppose. 1v1 martial arts combat of some sort could work? Mario Kart-like game where you see yourself as the kart in front or behind you sees you? I'm sure some creative developers could come up with a concept where 2nd person could work...

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This is surely something I will keep an eye on.
A civ game with xcom combat! :D

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Looks amazing!

Edit: I hope also they have mod support even if it's only for character customization, that's probably one of the best parts of xcom 2. Also I hope they let you give characters bios so you can role play a little bit.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: aFoxNamedMorris*fliptable* I'm not a developer, but a SysAdmin. This is one time I will say: BSD's ports system makes this so much easier. You pick your poison at configure time, and it always rebuilds from source.

aFoxNamedMorris, please meet Gentoo. Gentoo, this is aFoxNamedMorris.

And they lived happily ever after.

Or Arch.

Nah. My comment/joke was in reference to Gentoo's portage package manager, which in my experience is much closer to BSD's ports than pacman.

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Quoting: melkemind

Quoting: CandricSWhat is a fourth-person?

First-person is when you're seeing from the point of view of the character and third-person is when you're observing the character as if there was a camera there. What would fourth-person be?

Just taking a guess here, but maybe you don't control the person at all, just the environment. Or maybe you make suggestions to the character and they may or may not listen? I have no idea. :S:

Yeah, weird way to describe the viewpoint. I think it's just 1st person is through the eyes, 3rd person is over-the-shoulder and so they've gone with 4th person for a fixed viewpoint. Never come across it before.

They've got me wondering what a 2nd person viewpoint might look like...

Maybe it's when you see what the enemy sees as you're playing. Quite unplayable if you ask me :P

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Small step in the right direction but I'll still play Blu-rays on my Linux box for now.

To play blu-rays on my Linux machine I use a combination of MakeMKV and VLC.

I symbolic link the libmmbd.so.0 (file created/used by MakeMKV) to the files libaacs.so.0 and libbdplus.so.0 in the /usr/lib64 directory

ln -s libmmbd.so.0 libaacs.so.0
ln -s libmmbd.so.0 libbdplus.so.0


Then all my blus play 98% fine in Linux :)

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Awesome, and at reasonable prices too! :D

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Oh goody, another DRM-encumbered video service! Just what I was hoping for! /sarcasm

I fail to see how this is "Pretty awsome news".

Furthermore, Steam's built-in music player is very, very bad just for dealing with a large library of local content, especially in BPM. Is there any reason to expect they would handle video better?

Also, this article seems a little off-topic for this site. It's GamingOnLinux, not SteamOnLinux. What does this news have to do with this site's core topic? You don't need to report every little thing Valve does. Wouldn't sticking to the stuff that actually relates directly to gaming and linux be a better use of your time and your readers' time? There are plenty of other sites we can go to for generic information. This site is unique in its focus. I hope you have the foresight to understand why it's important to keep it that way.

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For archlinux users please note the latest opencv package did broke obs dependency.

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Quoting: TcheyHow do you get this 10% discount ? I have an account but on my order page, it's still 33,99€ (instead of 39,99€), with Anomaly Warzone Earth for free as a bonus. With the code from an email they send after registration, i have error message :
Error - This discount code can't be used with one or more games in your cart

It was working earlier, unless they changed something to close this loophole.

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Quoting: melkemind

Quoting: CandricSWhat is a fourth-person?

First-person is when you're seeing from the point of view of the character and third-person is when you're observing the character as if there was a camera there. What would fourth-person be?

Just taking a guess here, but maybe you don't control the person at all, just the environment. Or maybe you make suggestions to the character and they may or may not listen? I have no idea. :S:

Yeah, weird way to describe the viewpoint. I think it's just 1st person is through the eyes, 3rd person is over-the-shoulder and so they've gone with 4th person for a fixed viewpoint. Never come across it before.

They've got me wondering what a 2nd person viewpoint might look like...

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Quoting: ziabicePublishers never learn from years and years of piracy: offer DRM free content, in mkv, at 1080p and 720p resolution and x264, x265 codec or an open one and you'll win the Internet. Be fair with your customers!

Exactly! And yet, they blame piracy for their low (in their eyes) sales. The thing is, I can't get a legal functional copy of a movie anywhere: bluray can't run in Linux, or at least there is no guarantee that all discs can be read due to DRM. And I'm not about to watch movies through my browser (Amazon etc) when I have a superior media player in Kodi with Ambilight. So what options do I have? Yes, there are plugins for Amazon in Kodi, but they are unofficial and thus not guaranteed to work. Netflix only shows some movies in some countries and no longer allows VPN connections.
Am I supposed to just stick with DVD then? Install Windows (*shudder*)?

The game industry has learned to sell us what we want, how we want it, and I'd never think of pirating a game these days. Music is the same, I usually buy mp3s from Amazon, DRM free.

BTW I hope this discussion is okay, I don't want GoL to get in any trouble due to discussing piracy. Liam, feel free to remove this comment if it bothers you.

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Yep, got the same when i just tried.

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Quoting: CandricSWhat is a fourth-person?

That was my question as well. What in the world is fourth person? First person is seeing through someone's eyes, speaking through their mouth, etc. (I) Second person is directly addressing someone. (You) Third person is observing a person from outside their body. (Him/Her) What the heck is fourth person?

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It looks like Monument Valley

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: aFoxNamedMorris*fliptable* I'm not a developer, but a SysAdmin. This is one time I will say: BSD's ports system makes this so much easier. You pick your poison at configure time, and it always rebuilds from source.

aFoxNamedMorris, please meet Gentoo. Gentoo, this is aFoxNamedMorris.

And they lived happily ever after.

Or Arch.

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Quoting: KithopI'm still trying to get the NVENC support to work. Rather, to detect. Managed to hackily build a .deb for Ubuntu 16.04 off the master tree for ffmpeg with --enable-nonfree and --enable-nvenc tacked on the end. Have the required toolkit installed from nVidia, headers symlinked in /usr/local/include ... a bit of futzing around later with it not detecting libva properly (maybe just an issue from when I cloned master?), and I have working ffmpeg .debs!

I installed them! 'ffmpeg --codecs' shows nvenc in the list!

OBS still mocks me with 'Software (x264)' as the only encoder drop down. :( So now I'm thinking, great, do I have to actually build OBS from source too, so it detects my new custom build of ffmpeg? Oh, right, I need all the -dev packages that OBS depends on if I want to bui-

*fliptable* I'm not a developer, but a SysAdmin. This is one time I will say: BSD's ports system makes this so much easier. You pick your poison at configure time, and it always rebuilds from source.

If anyone figures it out, I'd love to know... and no, I can't redistribute the .deb files legally - hence the requirement for non-free. ;/ This is why we can't have nice things, like a PPA with NVENC-enabled ffmpeg builds, unless nVidia relicenses the required libraries.

95%+ sure that my next card (and potentially my next CPU!) are going to be AMD, so here's hoping for some love in the form of, say, AMD VCE support in OBS Studio? ^.^ Especially if it's exposed through the new-and-upcoming open source AMDGPU drivers. I'm so, so sick of binary blobs and stupid license incompatibility issues.

You many need to rebuild OBS. If you have the OBS ppa set up, make sure you have build-essential and debhelper packages installed, then try:
apt-get build-dep obs
This may replace your custom ffmpeg. If it does, reinstall your custom ffmpeg deb package.
apt-get source obs
I don't remember if this will unpack the source tarball for you. If not, unpack it.
Then, navigate to the directory where you just downloaded the OBS source.
dpkg-buildpackage
Assuming all goes well, you should find a .deb package in the source code's parent directory. Install it.

If this doesn't work, you probably need to rebuild ffmpeg, with the "--enable-shared" option. Good luck! If you rebuild ffmpeg, you may need to rebuild OBS, too.

I had this working previously, but after some recent upgrades, everything broke. Rather than fix it, I just switched to Arch, where all the necessary goodies were in the AUR, and it built and compiled effortlessly. I'm serious. Switching to Arch was actually less hassle for me than getting it working on Ubuntu.

(NOTE: I'm not interested in getting involved in any distro wars. They're both good distros, with their own strengths and weaknesses, and I use each of them regularly. Manjaro is a nice compromise. It feels like reminiscent of Mint, but it's a rolling release and uses Arch's package management.)

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Publishers never learn from years and years of piracy: offer DRM free content, in mkv, at 1080p and 720p resolution and x264, x265 codec or an open one and you'll win the Internet. Be fair with your customers!

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How do you get this 10% discount ? I have an account but on my order page, it's still 33,99€ (instead of 39,99€), with Anomaly Warzone Earth for free as a bonus. With the code from an email they send after registration, i have error message :

Error - This discount code can't be used with one or more games in your cart

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The only way I'm going to buy from them is if I get a DRM-free .mkv file. I want to own the stuff I buy, not rent it, and make as many personal backups as I wish.

I tolerate games that require Steam as their DRM, but not movies (or music).

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Quoting: HamishGiven that we are on a PC gaming focused website, I would have thought that the amount of people who grew up with and still mostly play PC focused games, which at least were typically designed around the mouse and keyboard, would be higher. So it would have had a bigger effect on the culture.

Being one of those people, I don't think that's it. I've been gaming on computers since the mid-eighties, and I don't see myself ever owning a console or even running SteamOS, mostly due to a perceived loss of (practical) freedom and flexibility. Still I've found in the last couple of years that I very much enjoy gaming with my controller, lounging on my sofa.

I don't believe this is a betrayal of my culture in any sense of the word. Perhaps this is about different personalities; Maybe you're just conservative by nature (as opposed to politically, which is not relevant). Not that I'm much of a trend chaser either, thus far refusing to own a smart phone and having no interest in stuff like VR. Heck, even social networks and online gaming barely exist as far as I'm concerned, but I'm not much of an extrovert, so there's that.

Also, as you implied, PC games were designed around the mouse and keyboard, but I am not sure this is still true outside a few obvious genres. Maybe even game designers are increasingly of a generation that grew up holding a gamepad.

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Quoting: CandricSWhat is a fourth-person?

First-person is when you're seeing from the point of view of the character and third-person is when you're observing the character as if there was a camera there. What would fourth-person be?

Just taking a guess here, but maybe you don't control the person at all, just the environment. Or maybe you make suggestions to the character and they may or may not listen? I have no idea. :S:

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moviesonlinux.com

they should integrate netflix, hulu or whatnot into the bigpicture mode instead :D

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This is a nice feature for steamos

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looks very nice indeed, i will take a closer look to it when its completed

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Finally a cinema company that understand that the future is here...
The only complain I have is the streaming thing... I prefer to download the movies, even if they have always online Steam DRM.

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Damn, I ended up getting it on Humble Bundle store, since I am a monthly subscriber there, I got 10% off. 25% off would have been sweet. Looks like a great game, and Paradox has been releasing almost all of their stuff on Linux on day 1. Magicka 2 being the only exception I can think of.

Would be nice if they'd port some of their older library, but I guess after Hearts of Iron 4 comes out, probably not much point in playing 1-3? It's not like they're sequels, just updated engines for the same stuff. Really looking forward to that one... still have tons of Crusader Kings II and Europa Universalis IV to play.

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Quoting: aFoxNamedMorris*fliptable* I'm not a developer, but a SysAdmin. This is one time I will say: BSD's ports system makes this so much easier. You pick your poison at configure time, and it always rebuilds from source.

aFoxNamedMorris, please meet Gentoo. Gentoo, this is aFoxNamedMorris.

And they lived happily ever after.

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