Excerpts from Robin Gareus's message of 2011-06-10 23:13:23 +0200: > 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. 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. Regards, Philipp _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
