At the moment, I think flat wavs are the way to go. MP2s stress the CPU
too much.
Other than that you really need to offload as much as possible to a
server/proper PC (think Apache and MySQL). I wouldn't want to import
via the Pi thats for sure. Not if you want to use it at the same time.
You could attach USB hard drives for the audio store but I think theres
more potential with a real PC/Server sharing /var/snd.
The base image of the Pi is a pretty lean LXDE gui (started via startx
which brings back memories of Red Hat and fighting with xorg confs on a
crappy SiS card) so I don't think theres much fat to trim there.
At the moment its too sluggish for comfortable use but maybe theres the
potential to eke out a bit more by using a different window manager or
something (I'm thinking a GUI just for Riv and nothing else). The Pi
guys are still tweaking the Debian image as well to offload more to the
GPU hence why its BETA.
Finally I don't know if using Debian Wheezy is a good idea due to the QT
shenanigans but I'm not sure if going back to Squeeze would gain
anything considering the Pi team is focusing on Squeeze.
I think theres a Fedora image too.
I'm not sure what the ripcd daemon does but whatever it is, on the Pi
its 100% CPU all the time which doesn't help the sluggishness, I don't
think I even noticed ripcd in top on a normal PC so maybe its just an
ARM bug that could be worked on? (if ripcd really is just a CD ripping
daemon perhaps its worth just shutting it down all together as there is
no CD drive in the pi).
In short I think there is potential there with caveats but its not there
yet.
The Pi is very usable as an internet / movie watching / Facebook machine
(apart from no flash support yet). Things take a while to load when
you're used to an i7 but I've come across far less usable OEM laptops
with all the bloatware over the years.
I can live with the slowness to a degree, considering most decent GPIO
cards cost £100 by themselves then you have the £150+ KVM boxes if you
want silent studios, I think you can all admit a $35 silent, tiny
machine is something worth investigating as a studio alternative.
Heck even using the thing as a dumb terminal hitting Riv via VNC would
save a lot on the KVMs.
Wayne Merricks
The Voice Asia
On 29/06/12 14:32, John Handelaar wrote:
On 29 June 2012 13:17, Alan Peterson <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
The current incarnation of RD likes to see some rather robust iron
to run. The Raspberry has a non-expandable 256MB RAM, a single
analog audio output and a 700 MHz proc.
In fact, that's exactly the same spec as the Thinkpad I first
installed Rivendell on a few years back. Worked just fine, so long as
you (wisely) don't make it do anything else at the same time.
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