As I haven't been able to update any of my hardware in a couple of years, I found that Ubuntu was getting a bit too bloated and heavy so I converted to Debian with xfce. Lightweight but not "missing" anything important. If I come across video that doesn't work on my setup, I assume that the creator never intended for me to watch it anyway. So I don't.
If you Windows users install Cygwin, I would recommend that you select the option that tells it to install everything. Makes for a big download but it also makes life easier. If you install everything you can even run most of the Microcodes :-) Pall On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Alan Sondheim<[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi - I've used Ubuntu, and still use it, and maybe should install the > studio, but every editing system I've tried in linux has been a mess or > overly professional, i.e. Kodak codecs. I know you can do endless > configuring, but I'll stick with Premiere with is fast and lean (I have an > early version) and does avi mov and a host of other formats. I had too > many crashes, even in Ubuntu. I use linux for text/script and of course > blender/gimp work well. I tried gimp film at one point and got nowhere. I > realize there may be ways to do this, but I'd rather work literally out of > the box. I'll look at ardour when I return from Copenhagen, though - it > sounds like it will run well on my system. > > What a best OS depends on your use/facility of course. I like the fact > that Mac^10 can emulate and has terminal, although I work in WinXp for the > most part, as well as cygwin and linux. For people using windows, I'd > suggest looking at cygwin which if nothing else is "fun" and runs all > those scripts. - > > Thanks, Alan > > > On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, ricardo ruiz wrote: > >> 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) >> > > > | 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 > -- ***************************** Pall Thayer artist http://www.this.is/pallit ***************************** _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
