rc4 and KDE 3.5, multimedia
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I read of several favorable experiments with prior 3.4 rc's and KDE 3.5, so I decided to give it a try today. I enabled SID and installed it from there. This is a preliminary report, but so far, I can say all is well. All the functionality of 3.5 that I enjoy on my other distros and MEPIS. It's a good combo.
I would switch completely over to MEPIS, but for one nagging problem, which is the multimedia. I'm a TV producer, and I need to experiment with all the various projects being worked in the world of video editing. I"m particularly interested in tracking Cinelerra's progress, since it has the best potential as far as I can tell, to compete head to head with the editors I still must use in Windows. But, I've been frustrated in getting Cinelerra to run under MEPIS. I wonder if anyone else has succeeded?
Re: rc4 and KDE 3.5, multimedia
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It's probably a matter of horsepower. From their website:
http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3, which also supplies rpms that contain binaries. You can convert rpms to deb packages using alien and dpkg.
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Movie studio in a Linux Box
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DO THE DEW-OPP
The answer is yes. Cinelerra is more stable in a 64 bit operating system than a 32 bit operating system. The reason is intermediate address calculations start screwing up at around 512MB on a 32 bit system. Multiplying and adding small registers can wrap around even 512MB numbers and that's what we're especially seeing with memory intensive floating point images.
Fortunately Cinelerra and Linux are now fully functional on the dew-opp. The dual Opteron, that is. This is improvement you can feel. Floating point image calculations finish in a snap. Never cower in fear over 2 gig virtual set sizes again. Cinelerra's floating point imaging is the application your dew-opp has been looking for.
RECOMMENDED SYSTEM
Now Cinelerra is by no means a lightweight program. You'll need something slightly less sexy than an Ipod to run it most effectively. Running in 32 bit mode is not recommended. We found this dual dual core Opteron with 128 bit, interleaved memory to be years ahead of anything else. It compresses MPEG-4 HDTV in realtime. The key is separate memory busses for each processor. Be aware most cheap motherboards share the memory bus of one processor with both processors.
Dual Opteron 275
4 * 1 Gig Registered PC3200 RAM
500 GB SATA drive
Tyan S2885 motherboard
Gigabit ethernet
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Or, you can try Dynabolics, from http://www.dyne.org
It's a multimedia iso from the get-go. The ISO is a LiveCD that you can try out without installing, although you'll have to give it some HD space if you try to edit an actual movie. I tried Version 1.3, out of curiosity and because it was included with the CDs in the back of the "Linux Format" magazine.