Making Studio work with more than one DE

[Len Ovens]

On Wed, May 22, 2013 2:49 pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 14:34 -0700, Len Ovens wrote:
>>
>> > Am 22.05.2013 22:09, schrieb Jimmy Sjölund:
>>
>> >>> First of all, Ubuntu Studio is not a pro audio distribution. It's
>> for
>> >>> all multimedia content creation.
>> >>
>> >> I have always considered US as a pro audio distribution, why not?
>> Real
>>
>> :)  I think the intent of the remark is that ubuntustudio is not "only"
>> a
>> pro audio distro. Certainly I think it can be used that way, but it's
>> aim
>> is also to be a pro graphic studio and a pro photographers studio and a
>> pro video creation tool. Hopefully the user will soon be able to choose
>> just to install one of these workflows rather than all of them.
>
> I always remove pulseaudio and build a kernel-rt. The differences to the
> full preempt kernel with threadirqs isn't important, but removing
> pulseaudio is important.
>
> For what kind of professional audio, graphic, photographers and video
> creation tool is pulseaudio useful ;)?

Broadcast. It is good for remote content transport as suggested by the
EBU. They do not talk about pulseaudio specifically, but the methods they
do suggest can at this time only be done that way.

Pulseaudio is also good for use with client show and tell... the client
comes in and says, "I saw this thing on U tube..." I understand you have
had trouble with PA... Not that long ago it did have many problems. But at
this time, I would say that a PA->jack bridge is easier to set up and use
than ALSA loop backs. Also many of the MP3 players or CD playing SW do not
play well with Jack. (I don't know any)

If any of these people are using their computer for a telephone... all the
phone apps work with Pulse, none (at this time) work with jack.

>
> From video creation I would remove the word "professional" ;p.

That was why I used the word "Aim" Our aim is to have Studio be
professional quality in all these areas. What we need most are people who
are involved professionally in video to join our community and make their
own system based on studio work for profession audio so we can import the
changes. I know the tech aspects of video (at least analogue :), but I am
not a video person, my interest is not visual.... everything looks good to
me unless it is really bad.

-- 
Len Ovens
www.OvenWerks.net