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Realtime is also needed for multimedia

Realtime is also needed for multimedia

Posted Dec 11, 2007 1:55 UTC (Tue) by RobertBrockway (subscriber, #48927)
In reply to: Realtime is also needed for multimedia by ssavitzky
Parent article: Enterprise realtime and cooperative development

Perhaps you don't want to run X on the box at all.  X is network transparent so you can
display Audacity to another box on the network.  Yes this means involving another box (or a
thin client) but it _might_ give better performance.


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Realtime is also needed for multimedia

Posted Dec 11, 2007 14:31 UTC (Tue) by ssavitzky (subscriber, #2855) [Link]

I actually recorded about 2/3 of my CD that way -- it worked, but there was a noticable lag that made it less responsive for editing and overdubbing. My current recording box is a dual-core CPU, which gives me the best of both worlds.

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