I am running Cinelerra with great success on a: AMD Athlon64X2 3200, 2gig ram and 300 gig IDE drive running on Ubuntu Brezzy 32.
My Cinelerra installation was straight from synaptic. For a while playback performance was horrible, but then I found out my motherboard did not really suported AGP, and the NVIDIA videocard was not perofrming at all. I then switched to a Geforce 6600GT 128MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video card, and now it rocks!. I get 29fps on straight HD 1080i playback, (3 to 7 when applying effects) On plain DV Encoding a 7 minute DV (720x480) to mpeg (.mpv) for latter use on DVD takes about 4.5 minutes, encoding the audio (.mpa) takes about 30 seconds. When encoding CPU utilization goes to 80%+80%, so it is perfectly usable for any other tasks. I have also loaded Cinelerra on Ubuntu Brezzy 64, and since I did not noticed inmediate improvements, I sticked with Brezzy 32, as it was more convenient for me. (Still got it on my dual boot) Good luck with your system choice. alx. PS. While I am at it, I found that QDVDAuthor does a great job preparing and burning DVD's that are compatible with all the DVD players I've so far tried (about 8) _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
