<meta charset="utf-8">On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Al Matthews <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:prolepsis@gmail.com">prolepsis@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Michael, I'm with you in spirit, in wallet, and in practice. But the<br>
OSX-iOS experience is deeply refined. Restricted, and getting more<br>
restricted; but refined. <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><meta charset="utf-8">You completely missed the point. I reacted to Kurt's comments not about availability/maturity of audio/video apps in Linux vs. The Rest of the World, I even stressed that point. It is about the necessity of being <insert your OS of choice> geek (at least to some extent) in order to accomplish anything creatively with your computer.</div>
<div><br></div><div>But I don't understand the meaning of "refined experience" with regard to an operating system. I am not interested in "experiencing" the OS, I am interested in using (or even creating) software so that others can experience the result. Yes, I want to have a pleasant experience using the system but "refined" and "restricted" applied to the same OS does not sound right. </div>
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I don't think the Linux world has anything to<br>put alongside Final Cut Pro X, but please inform me if I'm wrong.<br>Blender I do love, but that's different.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, I don't think that there is a complete video editing suite in Linux except for kdenlive and a couple of other (simple) tools. My understanding is that you can edit multitrack video with kdenlive with some FX. How it compares with Final Cut, I don't know. How Blender compares with 3DS Max or Maya, I don't know either but that is not stopping you from loving it. </div>
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I'll venture that a lot of Apple's stumbling in the ffmpeg gstreamer<br>
world is legalese. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>I know nothing about it. But I don't think that it is illegal to run either ffmpeg or gstreamer on Mac OS.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
In other words, there's a reason those codecs are<br>
distributed as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. You see this<br>
stratification in naive Ubuntu distributions just as clearly.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am not sure I understand. What is a naive Ubuntu distribution? </div><div>The Good, the Bad and the Ugly groups are defined by the gstreamer maintainers, not Ubuntu or other distributions. I don't understand why you refer to them as strata, either.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I will reiterate that I am not attacking MacOS or any other OSs. I chose to work with Linux and that's my problem. But I can also work with other operating systems, I can trouble shoot them and I can get the job done. And that experience brings me to the realization that you have to be a <your favourite OS> geek in order to get the job done (or at least pay a geek when you're stuck).</div>
<div><br></div><div>./MiS</div></div>