On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 14:40 +0530, Rony Bill wrote: > My users are mainly home and small office ones and they have a lot of > multimedia activity going on. > > Please do not treat this message as a rant or cribbing or a complaint > against linux. It is simply an SOS from a junior linuxer on behalf of other > junior linuxers too. I am not looking at an individual problem for any > particular distro. Its a general problem that I want to highlight.
Rony, here are a couple of Linux distros with focus on multimedia: http://www.dynebolic.org/ available gratis Studio to Go! http://www.ferventsoftware.com/ not gratis As to the larger issue of multimedia support on Linux - there has already been much discussion in the thread. But ... a counter point - I have an OEM SB Live! 5.1 sound card. Downloaded the windoze drivers and the accompanying software from Creative Lab's website. In Win XP/2K, the driver installation software is unable to find the card although it shows up as multimedia device under devices! I have tried it on a AMD64 (MSI K8TNeo) and a Pentium 4 system - no sound, no multimedia :( Yet, under Linux the card works very well in both systems :) -- Arun Khan (knura at yahoo dot com) Baruch's Observation: If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
