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> Excerpts from Robin Gareus's message of 2011-06-10 23:13:23 +0200:

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>> On 06/10/2011 10:36 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

>> > On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 21:44 +0200, Robin Gareus wrote:

>> >> http://rg42.org/wiki/a3vtl

>> >

>> > 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

>

> 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.

It's a very powerful solution that Robin has provided. Everyone who works

with audio/video should be using it as a standard tool.
> Today I've seen that in the area of video GUI

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> 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
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