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On 12/11/12 21:19, Fons Adriaensen wrote [in a different thread]:

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> 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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