blah slackware is definatly the best OS in the world. current, 13.0 rc3, has kde4, many codecs and so on.
hey, alan, you should try ubuntu studio. it can install a huge bunch of software for multimedia production, including video editing and so on best r 2009/8/15 james morris <[email protected]> > > On 15/8/2009, "Alan Sondheim" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > >The issue I have with linux - it stops me cold - is video. I also think > >this is true for a lot of people who otherwise might switch to the OS. (I > >use it on an Asus EEE PC, on two old Sharp Zauruses, and on a Kubuntu > >flashdrive.) There's no support as far as I've been able to find for .mov > >or .avi which are pretty much standard. .mp4 plays as audio; there's no > >handling for the H264 compression among other things. There may be fixes > > ffmpeg supports all these things, though while watching some of your > videos, there are warnings about brainfart (!?) cropping not being fully > supported. VLC is another good one, uses ffmpeg too. I've not recently > had any problems watching what you produce - I don't watch much video > tho - and that's in Debian which is always a bit behind the times. > > You should try a multimedia centric linux distro for sure. > > >and workarounds, but it's a nuisance. And unless you're an animation farm, > >the editing is useless. I also don't like Audacity for that matter - too > > I've occasionally tried video editing, having never got anywhere. > > I really don't like Audacity, the GUI is horrible. I never use it. Try > SND if you know scheme - which is where most of its functionality lies. > > >much of it is obscure, and at least with CoolEdit I have total control > >over reverb/echo/sweetening, notch filters and the like. Linux is still a > > I have total control over reverb/echo/sweetening, notch filters and the > like in Linux. I recently ported some old LADSPA plugins to the new LV2 > standard. (LADSPA and LV2 are ways of writing plugins for linux audio > applications). > > For audio, you need JACK, ardour2 is superb though perhaps a bit overkill > for your requirements ( but i'm not familiar with cooledit ) as it's a > digital audio work station designed for pro studio usage/hard disk > recording etc. - Again get a multimedia centric Linux distro if you > don't care to set this up yourself. > > >hacker's paradise (I use the command like all the time), but it's way > >behind on multimedia - and that's the way the world's going. So I'm stuck. > >Damn! > > It's catching up slowly. > > >Can you say something about AHCI? (I think this is worthwhile for other > >users on these lists, since a lot of us work linux one way or another, and > >the OS is free, lean, and relatively fast.) > > AHCI? Advanced Host Controller Interface. It's some hardware thing for > SATA hard drives and the like. It supersedes IDE. > > > James. > > > >On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, james morris wrote: > > > >> > >> Yeah I think you are probably right about AVG, I might have just got > >> carried away there. It was Zone Alarm that was playing up. Last time I > >> used ZA, it seemed fine - 3 months ago. > >> > >> Also, I've not really noticed any particular difference in disk speed > >> between having AHCI on or off. In Linux, using the hdparm -t command > >> shows very little difference in performance with AHCI on and disabled. > >> > >> There's an article on wikipedia about AHCI and Vista, with links to > >> fixes. It's nice to see that Windows has a long list of problems with > >> AHCI, while Linux is only struggling with one or two issues particular > >> to certain hardware. > >> > >> Both Intel and AMD are contributing code to the Linux kernel for it to > >> work with their new technologies within their latest processors (not > >> that I can afford them) while Linux is also going to be the first OS to > >> support the new USB3 hardware. > >> > >> > >> On 15/8/2009, "Alan Sondheim" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> more reasons - > >>> > >>> the UAC is miserable. the audio balloons are almost impossible to turn > >>> off. it's slower than XP. constant permission messiness with the > console. > >>> no tweakUI without paying for it. too much configuration - too many > >>> effects to disable. AVG does work btw and auto-updates. I'm waiting for > 7, > >>> see if I can put it on top w/out losing efficiency or the programs I'm > >>> using. > >>> - alan > >>> > >>> On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, james morris wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> why i'm tempted to delete vista > >>>> ------------------------------- > >>>> > >>>> 1) I must disable SATA AHCI mode in the BIOS because Vista Home > Premium > >>>> can't handle it. Consequently the hard drives are not operating at > full > >>>> speed. If I don't do this, Vista crashes around 2 seconds after it > >>>> first begins booting up. > >>>> > >>>> 2) I've got no software that makes using Vista worth the hassle. I > have > >>>> two games, Tomb Raider, and Crysis, but I can't be bothered to play > >>>> them because it feels so unproductive and a waste of time learning how > >>>> to. > >>>> > >>>> 3) Somewhere along the line while Windows was downloading and > installing > >>>> updates, it broke something. While I was fumbling around in Tomb > Raider, > >>>> Windows suddenly decided it had better things to do and began > >>>> configuring updates. It got halfway along configuring update 2 of 3 > and > >>>> then decided it wouldn't bother after all... it rebooted the computer > >>>> instead. > >>>> > >>>> 4) The firewall and anti virus software crashed and I can't be > bothered > >>>> to keep updating them either. They suck. So does the trial version of > >>>> the Nero or something media player which does nothing but suck. > >>>> > >>>> 5) Because I don't ever use Vista. It would free up some disk space if > I > >>>> were to delete it. > >>>> > >>>> 6) It's good to do a bit of cleaning and dump things which are unused. > >>>> > >>>> 7) It's been at least 3 months since I used Vista. And I only used it > >>>> then because someone sent me a Word document as an attachment. It > seemed > >>>> that OpenOffice.org could not read the contents. Turned out I was sent > >>>> an empty document. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> ONE NOT VERY GOOD REASON WHY I SHOULD NOT DELETE VISTA > >>>> ------------------------------------------------------ > >>>> > >>>> 1) I might need it for some irritating reason, presently unknown to > me, > >>>> in the future. > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> NetBehaviour mailing list > >>>> [email protected] > >>>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> | current internet text file: http://www.alansondheim.org/qf.txt > >>> | Alan Sondheim Mail archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ > >>> | Webpage (directory) at http://www.alansondheim.org > >>> | [email protected], [email protected], tel US 718-813-3285 > >>> ! http://www.facebook.com/alan.sondheim > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> NetBehaviour mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> NetBehaviour mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > >> > >> > > > > > >| current internet text file: http://www.alansondheim.org/qf.txt > >| Alan Sondheim Mail archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ > >| Webpage (directory) at http://www.alansondheim.org > >| [email protected], [email protected], tel US 718-813-3285 > >! http://www.facebook.com/alan.sondheim > > > >_______________________________________________ > >NetBehaviour mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- ----------- :(){ :|:& };: Unix Shell Forkbomb (2002)
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