Using Archlinux as an Audio/Video workstation

I'm thinking of playing around with making Arch an Audio/Video/Graphics workstation for editing & producing stuff. I have installed a bunch of apps like blender, cinnerela, audacity , hydrogen, lmms ....
But the problem is that every app is missing something and you must use another app for that, and i can't set up a good workflow of things.
So can you share your tips & tricks for setting your "perfect" setup for a multimedia workstation?

This thread is all about music software for professional audio on Arch:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=30547

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How do I use the front panel audio/video jacks?

I have a Pavilion HPE-480t desktop and can't find documentation anywhere on how to use the front autio/video jacks. When I hook up a device no software automatically loads. Is there a supplied program that recognizes them?
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Hi,
Based on this, your machine can have ONE of the following combinations at the front, I use the last one to answer your question:
15-in-1 card reader + 1394 + 2 USB + 1 headphone jack + 1 microphone jack
15-in-1 card reader + HP USB 3.0 SuperSpeed PCIe x1 card + 1394 + 2 USB + 1 headphone jack + 1 microphone jack
15-in-1 card reader + 1394 + 2 USB + 1 headphone jack + 1 microphone jack + Audio L/R + S-video + Composite Video
15-in-1 card reader + HP USB 3.0 SuperSpeed PCIe x1 card + 1394 + 2 USB + 1 headphone jack + 1 microphone jack + Audio L/R + S-video + Composite Video
Card reader: you can use it to read memory cards (normally from digital cameras or video cameras).
USB3: newer USB port(s) which can run 10 times faster than USB2
1394 or Firewire port: also normally for video cameras, many machines do not have it now
USB: normal USB 2 ports
Headphone jack: for headphone, earphone or external speakers
Microphone jack: For a microphone
Audio L/R: color coded for left and right audio channels, it does not say in or out.
S-video: Connect to additional monitor/TV, Many modern monitors/TV's now do NOT use this port.
Composite Video: also color coded (yellow). Connect to additional monitor/TV, Many modern monitors/TV's now do NOT use this port.
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BH
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Mac vs PC for all in one audio/video workstation?

Well, I have been a Mac user for my whole life.
The more I get involved with motion graphics and post production, as well as audio, and considering the direction Adobe seems to be going with their apps, I am considering going to a PC.
PCs seem to have a much greater flexibility for GPUs in kind and variety, and numerous other modular external components, among other things. Not to mention the huge difference in price for the setup you get.
The consensus among my peers is that Mac is more stable, but that appears to be the only upside to using a Mac for post production. They also seem to be having a much shorter shelf life, which means I end up paying out more over a shorter and shorter time to do the same tasks. Apple seems to be ditching the pro market slowly buy surely.
If the new Mac Pro doesn't offer significant enhancements this go around, I think I am going to move to PC for pro video/audio. Hopefully it will even be offered by summer so I have something to compare.
Now, i dont have any interest in doing character animation of anything like that, but would like to do architectural rendering, motion graphics, and product modeling, and photo-real stills.
I would like to run Cinema 4d, use Vray with it, all the Adobe production and design apps, and Ableton, Pro Tools, and audio apps like that, with something like the Nvidia Maximus configuration (or better if I choose) in the box.
So to all of you out there in the industry, let me know what your perspective is on this. Or even if the Mac Pro stays relatively the same, will the new Nvidia K5000 be all the power I need to work efficiently with the above apps and goals?
And how do you feel about Cinema 4D vs 3DS Max for the above mentioned apps? Or something else a better app for what I would like to produce?
Thanks in advance.

PCs seem to have a much greater flexibility for GPUs in kind and variety, and numerous other modular external components, among other things. Not to mention the huge difference in price for the setup you get.
That part is very true.
The consensus among my peers is that Mac is more stable
That part isn't. (Meaning both systems have issues.)

Using Markers to Synch Audio & Video?

Hi,
I am new to GB. I have been using FCP to work on the audio. I went to a mac store event about podcasting and how you can use GB as a scoring tool.
I'm using GarageB to do the audio on my reel but having a few problems ...
My situation is that I have a point in one song that I would like to precisely cue up to a point in the video. I can't seem to find any marker tool under the editor window to add a marker to where my playhead is in the audio track.
Any suggestions? Thanks!

Actually I have a video that I want to add audio to. I could find the marker button for the video track but nothing for the audio tracks. Say I have video of a shuttle launching and I want to cue my music track to where it builds in intensity with the liftoff. I would mark the liftoff on the video but can find no may to mark the music track with the swell. What I ended up doing was just to split the audio tracks as an ad hoc marker and line them up with the marker on the video. Once in synch, I reunited the tracks. Any easier way?

Audio Video Input

I have a QIP6416-2 box and in order to get video, it needs to be connected via the Audio Video jack. I only have one input on my TV so I am unable to connect my DVD player. I was told the he Audio Video inputs on the box are disabled by default so I cannot even use them to to connect my DVD player. Verizon is severely limiting the ability to connect other electronics for the customer's viewing pleasure. Why are they disabled so hey cannot be used?

CSHopkns2 wrote:
I have a QIP6416-2 box and in order to get video, it needs to be connected via the Audio Video jack. I only have one input on my TV so I am unable to connect my DVD player. I was told the he Audio Video inputs on the box are disabled by default so I cannot even use them to to connect my DVD player. Verizon is severely limiting the ability to connect other electronics for the customer's viewing pleasure. Why are they disabled so hey cannot be used?
get an audio video switcher for $10. dont expect verizon or box maker motorola to provide all these extra features because you old tv has 1 input. all modern tvs have multiple hdmi and audio video inputs. id like my cable box to do my dishes but i know its not possible.

After exporting to Encore, no audio/video transitions

I used keyframes to create audio/video fade-ins and fade-outs between chapters. It looked perfect in Premiere. I then went to File > Export to Encore. Let it render for 3 hours. Then the resulting m2v/wav combination in Encore doesn't show any evidence of the audio transitions that I had created. This happened for 4 different 2-hour videos I am trying to make. What am I doing wrong?

If you set the work area bar to span one of the problem transitions and then export that work area to a DV AVI file, when you play the exported file in an external media player do you hear the audio transition?
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Audio/Video stream & MulticastSocket

Hello to everybody!
I want to send to many clients an audio/video stream (captured from mic/webcam) using MulticastSocket.
I found in some code examples that MulticastSocket is used setting a byte array with a particular size for buffering data (sending and receiving phases).
I want to ask you if you know what size I have to use for transmitting WELL audio/video stream captured from mic/cam. What is the best configuration?
Thanks in advance!
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Luca___

Hi,
have you checked with your Internet Service Provider (ISP) yet ?
Some ISPs make a disconnect at a specific time in order to prevent users from using it for purposes not allowed by the ISP.
At least here in Germany this is common behaviour with most DSL provider.
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I am using ALSA and Icecat. When I play any html5 audio/video it works, but the next time i click on another audio/video link I lose sound.

I am using Parabola (a fork of archlinux), Icecat 31.4 and ALSA
Icecat and firefox seem to hold onto the soundcard when I click on a new html5 audio/video link in the same tab. The next video/audio element loses sound. If I wait 10 seconds and click back to the start of the audio/video, the audio returns. I often get cpu spikes for icecat when it happens.
I have tried this with both motherboard and usb sound and I get the same problem. I have disabled extensions (addons) in Icecat, deleted profiles, reinstalled the browser and even installed firefox from the AUR and it still occurs.
I have disable gstreamer in about:config and restarted and it still occurs.
My .asoundrc is this:
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "hw:0,0"
All my other audio applications work. I have noticed that if I use pulseaudio it fixes it, but it should work without anyway, like it used to. I think something happened after an update, but I'm not sure.
Any help would be appreciated. I know it's not a big problem, but it's really frustrating and I've had it for ages. I even switched browsers to get away from it.

*nerding out*
I am not an expert in this and if we get stuck I have found a mailing list for the alsa project that can be contacted: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Mailing-lists
Gstreamer is disabled in Firefox as well as the os?
Since you are seeing issues with ogg files and moving video/audio combination I started to dig into file formats {sox http://sox.sourceforge.net/soxformat.html}
For ogg would the file format affect the "raw"?
defaults.pcm.file_format "raw"
Updated libraries
alsa-lib-1.0.6-8.FC3
alsa-utils-1.0.6-3
No no, here:
http://oss.sgi.com/LDP/LDP/linuxcookbook/html/cookbook_27.html#SEC377
Is the OGG cpu intensive for your alsa architecture? [http://alsa.opensrc.org/Ogg]
Troubleshooting sound on Linux to narrow down the issue: [http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/sound/sound_troubleshooting.htm#the_steve_litt_diagnostic_tools]
References: [http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Minivosc]
[http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/sound/sound_troubleshooting.htm#the_steve_litt_diagnostic_tools]
I am sorry, this is where I can no longer help. Please seek the guidance of the Linux forums or that alsa mailing list.

How to use rtp to transmit data other than audio / video

hi all,
as you all know the jmf is based upon a specific paradigm:
data source -> player (processor) -> renderer.
i am not being very precise on this but that does not matter.
i want (for testing purposes) to create a tool that transmit some custom data
(maybe even nonsense) over the rtp packages.
so as you may now see this would not work quite right with the mentioned
paradigm since there would be no audio/video to play-process-render.
so how would i go about to utilise the rtp abilities of the jmf without adhering
to the whole player-whatever shebang.
what i have figured out is that there is a way to transmit custom rtp-payload.
there is even an example on the jmf solutions page but even this one uses
an audio format (pcm).
i hope what it is clear to the dear reader what i want to do and maybe some-
one can help me with this.
p.s. i am not one who wants to get the whole source code (like so many
others do on this forum) for a project someone may have done on this, what
i need is a hint in the right direction.
thanks for your attention and thanks in advance for any useful hints.

Hi, I would like to make some comments that may help
you to find out how to manage your problem.
If you have a look to the JMF 2.0 API, Guide,
"Understanding the JMF RTP API", Figure 8-2
http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/2.1.1/guide/RTPArchitecture.html#105171
you can notice that the processor is not essential.
In this pciture, the processor is inserted between two datasources,
to let you perform some operations on the media that is read from
a file or a capture device.
But the SessionManager just needs a DataSource.
With what you say, I can imagine that you want to transmit
real-time data that is not related to standard media formats.
In principle, the only think you must do is to extend the
javax.media.protocol.DataSource abstract class and implement
it at your own convenience.
Once your custom class is written, you can call the SessionManager's
method createSendStream(DataSource ds, int streamindex) passing
for argument an instance of your mentioned custom implementation.
Hope this helps.
Good Luck ;-) !

I want to be able to use airplay to stream audio to another iOS device, and then use that audio stream to be used when recording video instead of the built in microphone / microphone input. Is this possible?

I want to be able to use airplay to stream audio to another iOS device, and then use that audio stream to be used when recording video instead of the built in microphone / microphone input. Is this possible?

A third-party app probably cannot obtain a stream from another app. To the best of my knowledge, such a capability is not provided in the software development kit, apps being "sandboxed" from each other and so allowed to communicate only in very specific and limited ways.
I'm not completely sure what you mean by "limitations on video capture". An iPhone, to the best of my knowledge, can natively record video only through it's built-in camera, and audio while doing video recording only through the built-in microphone or mic/headphone jack. There might be a video recording app that would allow audio input from an external device connected to the dock connector, but I'm not sure.
Regards.

Using a camcorder to record video and an interface to capture the audio

Here is what I am trying to do:
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I am able to make this work using iSight but not with the camcorder.
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Any suggestions?
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.7)
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... hmm, probably beyond the concept of this nice consumer app...?
iM is meant to work with miniDV camcorders.. all audio+video come via that single firewire "line"...
I've heard about an "internal software router", which claims to route different sound inputs to diff. apps...
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please post your results, and let us know what happend..

Uploading Stream (Images/Audio/Video files/Doc files) to Windows Azure Storage Blob by using SharePoint Online 2013 Library

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I use Keynote on iPad2. Video out via composite AV cable, audio out through earphone socket. If I plug into the earphone socket first, then the AV cable - no sound. AV first, then earphone - sound. Anyone know why?

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