Ubuntu PPA for *all* Linux Multimedia stuff

[falkTX]

Check this:
viewtopic.php?f=44&t=2545&p=11061#p11061

My first LMMS Hack

[studio32]

epichord http://evanr.infinitymotel.net/epichord/

[falkTX]

epichord http://evanr.infinitymotel.net/epichord/

Thanks, I really appreciatte that you take some time to search for new stuff for the PPA!

But, now that KXStudio is almost here, all application requests should be done here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kxstudio

I started with this one, just to provide an example.
Please make all your requests there.

Thanks!

[GMaq]

falkTX,

I'm the maintainer of AV Linux, since there is so much noise about Lucid I thought I'd better check it out. I installed it in VBox and added the -rt Kernel, medibuntu and your repo...DONE!

This is an uprecedented collection of current Audio apps in a single repo, great work, I wish you all the success with your KXStudio, you are correct that KDE is not represented with a good Multimedia specific version so that is a niche to be filled. I think there is room for everyone and of course I believe AV Linux also has a place.

As someone who knows how much work this takes I just had to say what a great job you're doing! I look forward to seeing an official KXStudio announcement soon.

[falkTX]

falkTX,

I'm the maintainer of AV Linux, since there is so much noise about Lucid I thought I'd better check it out. I installed it in VBox and added the -rt Kernel, medibuntu and your repo...DONE!

This is an uprecedented collection of current Audio apps in a single repo, great work, I wish you all the success with your KXStudio, you are correct that KDE is not represented with a good Multimedia specific version so that is a niche to be filled. I think there is room for everyone and of course I believe AV Linux also has a place.

As someone who knows how much work this takes I just had to say what a great job you're doing! I look forward to seeing an official KXStudio announcement soon.

Thanks!
I plan to make the official announcement next week, with the release of the "Beta 2" (based on Ubuntu Lucid beta2).
I still have to fix some packages, update the website and some other small stuff.
I sure appreciate your interest in KXStudio!

If you find any bugs, or there is some software not yet available in Lucid, please report a bug here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kxstudio

Thanks again!

[alberto]

Congratulations for this excellent PPA.

I think there is a bug in eq10q-lv2 package. It doesn't install anything. I'm using a 64 bit system.

[falkTX]

Congratulations for this excellent PPA.

I think there is a bug in eq10q-lv2 package. It doesn't install anything. I'm using a 64 bit system.

I've noticed this too and a fix is already uploaded. It's just Launchpad is taking too long to compile stuff (Ubuntu official stuff has priority next to a final release).
It should be compiled and available tomorrow.

[AutoStatic]

Hi falkTX,

A note of criticism from my side, my apologies beforehand
I wanted to backport some of your packages for my Karmic PPA. But your just so far from being meticulous that I have to refrain from backporting anything because it will take me so much time to take care of all the lintian warnings
Directories containing .svn and .git control directories, maintainer name errors, copyright errors etc., stuff like that. Nothing really seriously wrong but to me as a "mierenneuker" (nitpicker) it all seems so sloppy.
My apologies again for criticising your hard work but I had to get this off my chest.

Best,

Jeremy

[falkTX]

Hi falkTX,

A note of criticism from my side, my apologies beforehand
I wanted to backport some of your packages for my Karmic PPA. But your just so far from being meticulous that I have to refrain from backporting anything because it will take me so much time to take care of all the lintian warnings
Directories containing .svn and .git control directories, maintainer name errors, copyright errors etc., stuff like that. Nothing really seriously wrong but to me as a "mierenneuker" (nitpicker) it all seems so sloppy.
My apologies again for criticising your hard work but I had to get this off my chest.

Best,

Jeremy

How do you think I get all those packages there so fast?

The packages are uploaded, compiled and they run fine - that's all I care about.
I still have a lot to learn about packaging, so, for now, I just need to get things to run.
And they run indeed.

I think that the debian policy has too many rules... (have you look at a "debian/rules" for Fedora or ArchLinux?)

I'm sorry if my packages aren't the best ones around, but I honestly don't care, cause the users don't care about the copyright/lintian stuff, they just want it to work.
I hope you understand...

Hehe, anyway, I'll be glad to help you anytime.
"falktx" #opensourcemusicians

[AutoStatic]

Hello falkTX, I understand the way you work. But take my rambling as constructive criticism, it's not my intention to turn down your hard and good work! We both do things differently, nothing wrong with that.

I think that the debian policy has too many rules... (have you look at a "debian/rules" for Fedora or ArchLinux?)

Yes I have, I backported some stuff for my Fedora machines at work so I know how to package RPM's and to what rules they have to comply (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_c ... _and_rules). I agree that packaging for Fedora is more straightforward.

I'm sorry if my packages aren't the best ones around, but I honestly don't care, cause the users don't care about the copyright/lintian stuff, they just want it to work.

I'm far from a good packager either, I just package the stuff I need and am not claiming anything either. But those packaging rules and guidelines don't exist for nothing, but that's another discussion, one we shouldn't keep here.

Best,

Jeremy

[eric71]

Some questions about wine with the realtime patch from you ppa - On your website you say "run wine with the prefix "WINERT=10" (or similar)". What exactly is the number 10 indicating? What type of numbers can we be using there? And when you say "prefix" does it mean a command line like 'wine WINERT=10 reaper.exe', i.e. how exactly does the syntax go?

Thanks,

Eric

[thorgal]

I have not tried it myself but I suppose the number goes from 0 to 100 (RT watchdog being at 99 usually, jack somewhere between 10 and 70, etc).

As to the WINERT, it looks like a environment variable, so you would need to set it before calling wine:

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WINERT=10 wine blabla.exe


or you can have it in some login / shell init script
bash:

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export WINERT=10


csh family

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setenv WINERT 10


mind you, any wine app using RT SCHED_FIFO threads would then use this scheduling priority level.

[falkTX]

I have not tried it myself but I suppose the number goes from 0 to 100 (RT watchdog being at 99 usually, jack somewhere between 10 and 70, etc).

As to the WINERT, it looks like a environment variable, so you would need to set it before calling wine:

Code: Select all

WINERT=10 wine blabla.exe


or you can have it in some login / shell init script
bash:

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export WINERT=10


csh family

Code: Select all

setenv WINERT 10


mind you, any wine app using RT SCHED_FIFO threads would then use this scheduling priority level.

Hi, I think the values goes from -20 to 19, while 0 is nothing (like if you didn't set the variable).

I'm not 100% sure, so I'll check this now...

[thorgal]

-20 to 19 sounds more like the so-called 'nice' value range. WINERT as a variable defined for RT scheduling looks more like the SCHED_FIFO priority level (0 to 100). But better check than not

[AutoStatic]

Because I recently switched my PC at work from Fedora to Ubuntu Lucid Lynx I also started packaging for Lucid.