Xubuntu Studio

I'm getting into some video and sound editing, I thought for fun I'd follow this guide https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudioPreparation and see how Xubuntu faired. Pretty good actually. RT kernel no problems. I just left out the gnome menus obviously.

fwiw.

 

Nice Zoid, I'm actually waiting for my new system to get here (ASUS G51J-A1), my hope is that it will be a Linux audio powerhouse. I've got a Focusrite Saffire Pro 26/IO that works beautifully with FFADO, but my MBP's firewire chipset is teh sux (big bummer). I even tried patches for the new firewire stack (from the 1394-dev list), they stop my machine from locking up but the driver still won't work. (btw this is on Debian Sid AMD64, not Xubuntu Studio, yes it's slightly OT).

Anyways, I've been messing with the rt kernel too recently, it's pretty awesome. I'll post some details on my latency (assuming that the G51J is a success). Edit: It's a massive success so far. Works perfectly with FFADO + rt patched kernel. Perfect as in ~4.5ms latency perfect. I've tried recording 6 simultaneous tracks so far, I have yet to test its limit.

What kinda A/V hardware are you rockin?

 

'Groceries....right now I'm just getting my feet wet on this little Vostro 1220...but I have a Question you might be able to answer:

I have several .3gp vids I want to splice together. The only program I have found that play them back with SOUND (the vids from my G-1 phone use AMR encoding) is Windows Media Player + CCCP. VLC in linux will play them back but with no sound. Mplayer won't even play the video and I've got all the codecs installed that I can find.

Q: do you know a linux program that can convert these .3gp vids to say .mp4 or any other common format. I've tried WinFF from the repos and it can't read them.

thanks !!

 

ffmpeg should do the trick... something like this, depending on your configuration:

Code:

ffmpeg -i foo.3gp -b 128 -acodec mp3 -vcodec mpeg4 bar.mp4

 

thanks ....i'll give that a shot...but I think WinFF is a gui front end to ffmpeg...wonder why that wouldn't work? Specific instructions?

 

I use handbreak, i posted a mini review a while back. They have a native linux client too.

 

I've seen that before...I'll check it out too. thanks joe!

PS: on an unrelated note, I was pleasantly surprised to find out my Vostro 1220 lappy will run Sins of a Solar Empire nicely....no resolution options, but what it gives is perfectly acceptable. Settings med to hi. Smooth. Very nice!

 

On Linux? Or are you talking about Win7.

 

Sorry...Win7...I think I brought it up because joe is the resident linux gamer...

 

I had problems with my CXOffice and DropBox in Xubuntu, so, as good as it was, I did a 'straight' Ubuntu Studio install. Like it....it's different that taking Ubuntu and adding the 'Studio-Desktop'. But, I despise the Debian installer as it has no provision for activating wireless during the install.