video problems in Ubuntu

[Basil Chupin]

On 19/01/12 14:02, Douglas Pollard wrote:
> 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??

Do you mean that when you switch it on it is mounted in the /media 
directory (where all good USB thingies get mounted when you plug them 
in/start them)?

>   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.

Do the e2fsck check.

>      I'll let you know what I find.     Thanks,             Doug

OK.

BC

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