[LAU] Using audio from youtube videos [WAS]: Re: Requirements for huge multitrack editing

Lorenzo Sutton lorenzofsutton at gmail.com
Tue Nov 13 10:01:56 UTC 2012


On 12/11/12 21:19, Fons Adriaensen wrote [in a different thread]:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 02:17:03PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
>   
>> with no plugins, it would be hard to buy a computer today that could *not*
>> handle editing that session.
> True. I've been doing 30-track editing on a P4 system with 512 MB
> memory, no problem at all, Ardour handled that very well. That was
> just editing, mixing with a lot of plugins etc. could be another
> matter.
>
> The *only* case when I've seen it fail was strangely enough when
> recording just a single stereo track on a dual quad-core machine
> with 4GB of memory. Input was coming from firefox playing a Youtube
> video, routed via ALSA's Jack plugin, and recording failed repeatedly
> with 'your hard disk was not fast enough' messages.
Most probably it was flash draining all CPU or something.
For this use case I'd recommend using something, such as youtybe-dl 
(which also provides a nice --extract-audio flag), to download the audio 
contents and then just import that into Ardour.

Lorenzo.


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