I've used virtualbox successfully with win7. installation was simple. I have done this awhile ago on ubuntu, currently on OSX - both worked without complication.
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > Readers with unfortunately good memories will recall that I use an old > program called Transcribe along with a separate old program called > Footpedal to play back audio recordings for the purpose of transcribing > them. Some of you may also recall that I've been fooling around, from > time to time, with updating those programs to run well on Ubuntu 12. > When I switched to Ubuntu 14 they wouldn't work at all. A few months ago > I realized that those programs work well on Ubuntu 10, so I created a > VirtualBox Ubuntu 10 machine just for the purpose of running them. This > solution has worked well, for the most part. > > Yesterday I ran into a problem that tells me that explains why I haven't > been able to dedicate the time to those programming projects. Some of > the audio files I get are plagued by distortion. I commented about a > particularly noisy file to the fellow I get the work from. He listened > to it on his end and said that it was clean. This made me wonder if the > problem was on my end. I listened to the file with Audacity and > discovered that the noise was considerably reduced -- not completely > gone, but much better than when played on Transcribe. > > I had been planning on re-writing Transcribe so that it would run on > Ubuntu 14, but since I would be using the same library calls as the old > version I wouldn't be getting rid of the noise. Transcribe -- and Totem > Movie Player (which seems to go by a different name as Ubuntu releases > progress) -- both use gstreamer for playing audio. So, when I listen to > a file with either tool it sounds the same. Being in a hurry to meet a > deadline I borrowed my wife's Win7 laptop, installed a demo copy of > GearPlayer 4, and got the work out. > > As I mentioned above, the noise was reduced with Audacity, so they must > use different libraries for reproducing sound than gstreamer. Audacity > was good enough that, if I could figure out a way to control it with a > foot pedal, I'd consider using it. However, that's not what Audacity is > designed for, and it's not all that clear that there is a way to insert > the foot pedal into its controls. > > Now for the part related to the dark side. From my experience using > GearPlayer yesterday and again today, I've concluded that I need to > spend the money for it. However I'd rather not have to run two machines. > (I've done this before, and will probably continue to do it for the time > being, but I'd rather just run the one machine.) My current desktop has > the resources to support virtual machines, so I'm considering setting up > a Win7 virtual machine just to run GearPlayer. Does anyone have > experience setting up VirtualBox with Win7? Are there any gotchas I need > to worry about before going out and getting a legal copy of Win7? > > Thanks for understanding my unfortunate need to proceed to the dark side. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
