Quentin Harley wrote: > Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> Are there any examples that where made with Linux only? >> >> > > Yes, Elephants dream. > > http://orange.blender.org/ > > > Cheers, > Quentin
Hi Quentin :) that's really wicked, if a multimedia Linux will be half as good on my equipment, I would be fine with Linux for multimedia. With multimedia Linux it's pretty much as it is with aliens. I never saw a flying saucer. Flying saucers can be seen by people that live far away. Even people in Germany that have stable multimedia Linux, are living far away from my home, all people that are living next door to me, have less stable multimedia Linux than mine. I'm deeply impressed, I don't like that kind of visual computer art of ‘Elephants Dream’, but it's also possible to do things like http://www.vimeo.com/2233809. Elephant dreams is one of the video streams my all day 64 Studio Lenny can't play, but I've seen a little bit from the YouTube documentation, the pics and I heard the soundtrack. On my home equipment the soundtrack sounds very professional. I'm not fine with unnatural basses that films with Dolby licence often have got, but I'm impressed that such a soundtrack should be possible with Linux. I like that kind of music and can't do it in such a perfect way with my standalone equipment from Alesis, Behringer, Boss, Ibanez, Oberheim, Roland, Vox, Yamaha etc., comparing it with the Pioneer supported project that has got a Dolby license, http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/index.php/download/ I can't hear a difference to http://orange.blender.org/media-gallery. "‘Elephants Dream’ is the result of almost a year of work, a project initiated and coordinated by the Blender Foundation. Six people from the Blender user/development community were selected to come over to Amsterdam to work together on an animated short movie, utilizing Open Source tools only." (http://orange.blender.org/background) Just one year for such a perfect audio and video production done by only six people with FLOSS only, this is absolute perfect, exactly what I'm looking for. Anyway, so far I didn't find which Linux audio and video equipment, which distro and what hardware were used. "Open Source Tools" also can mean that the OS was Windows or MacOS, we also can't rule out, that it was running on IRIX, on Silicon Graphics computers there are also running FLOSS tools like GIMP and maybe Blender too. Thinking about the distros I'm using, 64 Studio and Suse and I pay for my first Suse, it was 9.0, with support, I don't believe that ‘Elephants Dream’ was done with Linux and home equipment hardware, maybe Blender was running on a network of expensive computers, that only were using Linux, but especially the final audio mastering seems to be done with Non-FLOSS equipment. I bet at the end of the film we can read, that it was done in a Dolby licensed audio studio and the video rendering was done on extreme expensive computer hardware. I would be satisfied with less quality, but the audio and video applications I TRIED TO USE with Linux, with my old ASRock and my new ASUS mobo based hardware, don't allow to do any production, while I have the gift and knowledge to do it with Non-Linux equipment, I don't have the money to put this into my homestudio. Before I will install a Windows, I'll have to do a last audio test with Suse 11.0 and a downgraded fluidsynth and libfluidsynth1, maybe once in a lifetime I will have good luck with Linux. After I have done that, I will try to install for Suse an ATI driver, that made a 64 Studio broken, to take a look at Blender for Linux, if Suse can handle the ATI driver. What are the possible errors that can be caused by an on-board graphics, when running real-time audio applications? I didn't have the money until now, to get a PCIe graphics. Is it really absurd to hope a 32-bit Linux might be fine on my machine, while 64-bit Linux aren't fine for some needed applications? Cheers, Ralf
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