video problems in Ubuntu

[Douglas Pollard]

On 01/18/2012 06:45 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 19/01/12 04:11, Douglas Pollard wrote:
>> On 01/18/2012 12:42 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>> On 18/01/12 11:54, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>>
>>> [pruned]
>>>
>>>
>>> Some typos ARE important and not to be ignored by the poster :-( .
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> What I should have typed here is, "sudo fdisk -l...." and not 
>>> "...fdsck....". Sorry about that :-( .
>>>
>>> BC
>>>
>> 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.
>
> What do you mean by "media drive"? All HDs (et al) are "media" drives.
>
>>    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
>
>
> I really do not know what is causing your problem but I can only 
> suggest the following from what you wrote above (and earlier).
>
> 1. When you were using Linux the system suddenly froze on you (a few 
> times I believe). What I suspect is that there is a corruption on your 
> Linux file system (OR it could be bad RAM) which caused the initial 
> crash which would have corrupted your file system after which 
> subsequent freezes only further corrupted the file system. What you 
> need to do is to make sure that the file system is "clean" and do this 
> you need to run e2fsck [WITHOUT the '-p' parameter] on the partition 
> which has your system on it. If you don't know how to run e2fsck then 
> ask. BTW, which file system is being used on your Linux system- ext2, 
> ext3,.....?
>
> 2. Re the difference in the times between Premier you installed on XP 
> (which XP- Professional, Home? doesn't matter really) and Linux. Did 
> you defragment Windows before you started the job and before doing so 
> did you get rid of all the crud which Windows creates on its disc 
> space? Other thing, XP only supports USB#1 and cannot handle USB#2 
> unless it has been upgraded to at least SP2. Which USB does your 
> external USB HD have - USB#2 (or maybe even USB#3 which is now all the 
> rage)?
>
> BC
>
       I don't want to run Premier it's pretty old  way back 6.5 and it 
doesn't do a lot of what I want to do.  I was just curious to see if it 
would export or render the file. It does have sp2 and usb2.  I had 
forgotten about having to defrag windows so of course it hasn't been done.
         What I was referring to with the usb hard drive on the Ubuntu 
machine was that the drive is flagged as a media drive. I don't know how 
or why that came to be??  It is a storage drive on my machine.?   I had 
several crashed a couple months ago when We hyad an ice storm. Theremay 
be software damge.     I'll let you know what I find.     Thanks,        
      Doug