April 2007 - openSUSE Multimedia - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Jahshaka 64 bit rpm binaries?
by Bob Williams 02 May '07

02 May '07

Does anyone know of there are any rpm packages of jahshaka for openSUSE x86_64 systems? I'm trying to find a linux movie editing program that can replace Pinnacle Studio which I used in Windows. Windows doesn't live here anymore ;) Main Actor looks quite good but is outside my budget at $199. I've installed cinelerra but it can't cope with my ATI Radeon 9200 video card, because the default Mesa driver isn't good enough. I've followed all the instructions at http://en.opensuse.org/ATI#64-bit_users but without success. Kino is too basic for my needs, likewise Camelot and Coriander -- Bob openSUSE 10.2 x86_64, Kernel 2.6.18.8-0.1, KDE 3.5.6 r31.4 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-multimedia+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-multimedia+help(a)opensuse.org

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Jahshaka 64 bit rpm binaries?
by Richard Creighton 01 May '07

01 May '07

> Does anyone know of there are any rpm packages of jahshaka for > openSUSE x86_64 systems? I'm trying to find a linux movie editing > program that can replace Pinnacle Studio which I used in Windows. > Windows doesn't live here anymore ;) Main Actor looks quite good but > is outside my budget at $199. I've installed cinelerra but it can't > cope with my ATI Radeon 9200 video card, because the default Mesa > driver isn't good enough. I've followed all the instructions at > http://en.opensuse.org/ATI#64-bit_users but without success. Kino is > too basic for my needs, likewise Camelot and Coriander > -- Bob Cinelerra is probably your best bet despite the hardware issue. In other words, consider changing the video card if need be. I sympathize with your problem having had similar problems when I also made the decision to never again use any software or hardware that *required* Windows in order to work. I can only suggest that until you find your solution that you undertake a concerted effort to write each and every vendor and manufacturer of products that you use or would use explaining that while they probably won't notice the loss of your business individually, they most definitely would notice the increase in business from the many tens of thousands of Linux system owners that would purchase their products if they would properly support Linux in a way similar to their support of Windows and that in many, if not most cases, their investment would be minimal by writing code that uses API's that are "compatible" between multiple OS platforms rather than falling into the trap of proprietary code useful only in one, predatory corporations' OS. Linux is right at 'critical mass' in terms of volume and the smart vendors would be wise to recognize this and provide support now, both in terms of hardware support and in terms of driver and other software support. In so far as the $199 price tag you mentioned; If the product is really what you need, consider that maybe you should bite the bullet because you will enable them to survive and show others (also making products you may in fact need and use in the future, if not now) they can put bread on the tables of their families without resorting to lowering themselves through Windows. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-multimedia+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-multimedia+help(a)opensuse.org

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opensuse-mutimedia repository?
by Martin Jürgens 18 Apr '07

18 Apr '07

Hi! I just began to try OpenSuSE. My distribution of choice was Ubuntu before. I noticed that - compared to Ubuntu - it is really hard in OpenSuSE to get a great multimedia experience. Ubuntu has the (more or less) official universe and multiverse repositories which include most multimedia packages + a meta package. You just have to install the meta package and you get a nice multimedia experience. In OpenSuSE, you have to add packman or guru which is not bad. But those repositories also update packages which you may want to keep. I personally want my system to consist of as much official packages as possible. It is not that important to me to have the latest versions. So I wanted to ask if there is something like a opensuse-multimedia repository, which does not contain lots of updated packaged (of course, libxine would have to get updated) and nice multimedia packages like w32codecs (?) libdvdcss (?), dvdrip, various gstreamer packages, lame and so on. If there is nothing similar currently, I'd like to hear some feedback and discuss with you guys. Maybe we can install the OpenSuSE buildservice on an own server and do opensuse-multimedia then? Cheers, Martin

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