video problems in Ubuntu

[Douglas Pollard]

On 01/18/2012 12:42 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 18/01/12 11:54, Basil Chupin wrote:
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> Some typos ARE important and not to be ignored by the poster :-( .
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>> Another way, at least to see if you do have a swap partition and how 
>> large it is use the (?)Disc Manager - the Partitioning tool - which 
>> will show what partitions you have. Or use on a command line in a 
>> terminal, "sudo fdsck -l /dev/sda[@]" which will also show you all 
>> the partitions.
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> What I should have typed here is, "sudo fdisk -l...." and not 
> "...fdsck....". Sorry about that :-( .
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> BC
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I did as you advised and I found that I have a 2 1/2 G swap file on my 
Ubuntu drive. I am taking video and sound off of a usb hard disk but am 
not writing to it. and it has no swap drive.  That maybe could be a 
problem?  It is a media drive.
    I brought in my computer from my workshop it has xp on it. I 
installed Premier on it and but the video I had downloaded on it.  
Premier will render or export which ever we want to call it, but it 
takes eleven hours to do it. The linux video editors all say it should 
take about 2 1/2 hrs. I am wondering if the programs are just trying to 
render too fast for my machine?? I am showing 100% cpu usage?  I will 
post to Cinelerra to ask this same question and if this might be the 
problem. I'll  want to know if can I slowdown the rendering somehow.     
I was amazed that it took so long in xp and so fast in Ubuntu.  The shop 
computer is 2.280 Ghz while the one I have been working on is 2.200 Ghz  
So the one running Premeir is a little faster.                          
                                                      Doug
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