Re: Video editing in Linux?

From: Ian Molton (spyro_at_f2s.com)
Date: 11/02/04 

Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 03:05:46 +0000

SjT wrote:

>>>I didn't know it was a prototype driver until i got it home and tried
>>>it on linux, on the sales spew they claimed it was linux compatible.
>>
>>You should have sent it back as improperly advertised.
>
> But it ran really well on windows which is my main concern, at a very
> low latency, i wasn't willing to give that up in the hope that i would
> find another TA that would run with Linux.

So, like I said you bought the hardware, and with M$ applications in
mind, you decided that was more important to you than linux.

You cant blame linux for

1) buying incompatible hardware
2) manufacturers claiming compatability that isnt.

>>So whats your beef with it? if it did most of the work for you thats a
>>GOOD thing, right?
>
> Yeah its a great thing, but it didn't enable me to set up my ISDN
> connection,

YAST didnt use ESP to magically set up unsupported hardware for you.

what a shock.

>>>Also soft synths need a low latency so that when you strike the key on
>>>the keyboard (MIDI keyboard) there's not a delay.
>>
>>True, but the latency on that type of thing is mostly in the effects
>>processing, IME.
>
> Nah, no matter what effects you have running the latency is not
> affected it remains solid throughout, it's only when the actual
> plugins exceed the resources on your machine that it will just fall
> apart.

Utter bollocks. whilst its probably true that your PCs CPU can do the
processing so fast that you dont need to care these days, the latency of
the processing is *ENTIRELY* dependant on the speed of the CPU. Trust
me, I've written software to do realtime processing of audio input as
part of my hobby (radio astronomy).

the soundcard (and driver) will introduce a specific (fixed) delay also,
under normal circumstances, but theres not much your OS can do about
that given a competantly written driver / kernel.

> In fact whenever someone tells me how weak and unstable Win XP is i
> always think of my machine at home processing all that while
> downloading from the web and checking for email etc.

speed and stability are not related.

> To give Windows some credit you can end unwanted tasks in XP unlike
> you could in previous versions and actually save your work before it
> all ended in a mess :)

You expect unix users to give windows credit for catching up on one
feature over 25 years behind *every other* OS out there?

>>I'd also use gnome rather than KDE but thats personal prefernce speaking.
>
> Would i be able to do that with SuSE after it's installed? or do you
> have to stick with the interface supplied with the distro?

most distros supply both KDE and GNOME.

> Dunno if i would use it over IE if i had the choice though, as
> sometimes it's nice to lay back and have buttons to press :D

Use a graphical browser then. Firefox and Konqueror have tabbed browsing
AND pretty buttons.

>>This is the strength of OSS - choice!
>
> You beleive theres more choice on linux than on windows then? Truly?

Lets put some parameters on that...

1) Given unlimited cash, no, theres no difference. you can buy anything.
2) Given no cash, you cant even have windows. OSS wins.
3) In the middle, yes, theres more choice. you can have everyhting
windows does AND all the free OSS stuff.

> I would only be playing on a partition that small, normally projects
> need at least 15GB unfortunately. But yeah it will give me an idea, i
> thought 2GB would be huge for a linux install, i'm guessing the apps
> are becoming just as bloated as windows apps?

Whilst its true that (some) linux apps are on the big side at the
moment, they do tend to get trimmed down from time to time (more
frequently than windows apps anyhow).

But...

Ahve you tried counting how many apps are on those SUSE CDs ?

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