11 Jun
2011
11 Jun
'11
6:53 a.m.
Excerpts from Robin Gareus's message of 2011-06-10
23:13:23 +0200:
It's a very powerful solution that Robin has provided. Everyone who works
with audio/video should be using it as a standard tool.
On 06/10/2011 10:36 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
The OT is gone.
This sounds really quite interesting Robin, I hope your patches will
receive further testing. Reliably working A3 with MIDI and video would
be a pretty good thing. On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 21:44 +0200, Robin Gareus
wrote:
Wow, Ardour with MIDI sequencer and for video sync. I can't believe
that
this is real. Am I awake?
it's real. still somewhat alpha but it's been usable and was announced
~1 year ago on ardour-dev. Paul said he'll look into merging this
endeavour around ardour-3.1 but there's no promise to that.
I've demoed it at the LAC2011 and Dave has written about it:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/ecology-ardour previously.
Any chance that it will work with 4 GB RAM (who
cares for RAM, it's
cheap, but I can't buy a new mobo and CPU etc.), AMD 2.1 GHz
dual-core,
HDSPe AIO or does this need some kind of super
computer to do an
extensive production?
sure. it's not too heavy on RAM, 128MB should do; but the more the
better (video frame-cache). and you should have a >1.6GHz dual-core CPU
for decoding PAL-DVDs in real-time.
It's also possible to run 'icsd' (the video-decoding server) distributed
on a cluster.
I would like to remove the OT for the subject,
because this isn't OT.
I
never have given up to get rid off MIDI jitter
and I get rid of it,
but
I have given up to get a workstation that would
enable all I would
like
to have.
On what hardware was it successfully used? What distro?
amd64/x86-64 (GNU/Linux & OSX 10.6), i386 (Linux/win32) and PPC (OSX
10.5).
I develop and use it in on Debian. Patrick Shirkey has tested it IIRC on
Fedora/CCRMA, Dave Phillips' test system looks like Ubuntu; and Pau
Arumi has reported some bugs and success as well on Fedora.
'icsd' is pretty much disto and OS agnostic. However, Ardour3 only runs
on GNU/Linux and requires a few tewaks for OSX.
ciao,
robin Today I've seen that in the area of video GUI
solutions aren't working that well, but the tools are there. Everything
under one hood would be a useful thing.
I am surprised to hear that after two years things have not changed
significantly in the major ditros.
Seems to me that there are a few things happening in this regard,
1: No one is being paid to specifically package multimedia production apps
for the major distros and keep on top of things.
2: The people who are being paid are purposefully screwing things up.
3: The people who are being paid are incompetent and should be fired.
I can't see any other reasons for the major distros not to have a fully
working and well integrated multimedia productions suite by now. After all
the tools are being used in one way or another by all the major motion
picture houses these days and a lot of the development is being driven by
industry requirements.
IMO, there is definitely something fishy going on.
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd