CentOS - Mar 2016 - Openshot 2.x (beta) on C7??

On 3/11/2016 2:02 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote:
>>> Looks like installing openshot 2.x on C7 isn't as trivial
>>
>> It is not trivial at all. The best way to handle this will be to find
the
>> required packages in Fedora and rebuild them.
> 
> So what's the easy way?
> 
> Switch to Ubuntu or something? 8-O
Maybe Fedora, maybe Ubuntu?  It's more time-consuming than hard to build a
virtual machine these days, and it's not even that time-consuming.  Is there
a distro that already has what you want all packaged up?  Run it in a VM.  Take
a snapshot first if you want to try something potentially system-breaking or
that's going to spew files everywhere.  On a single-user machine, the
performance should be within a few percent of running on the bare metal.  So, if
you test drive some beta software and it doesn't perform well on a VM,
it's probably not going to be much better running on a same-spec physical
machine.

NB: I administer several hundred virtual desktops, so I chugged rather than
sipped the virtualization Kool-Aid.  :-)

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Beattie" <cbeattie at geninfo.com>
> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
> Sent: Friday, 11 March, 2016 15:53:29
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Openshot 2.x (beta) on C7??
> On 3/11/2016 2:02 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote:
>>>> Looks like installing openshot 2.x on C7 isn't as trivial
>>>
>>> It is not trivial at all. The best way to handle this will be to
find the
>>> required packages in Fedora and rebuild them.
>> 
>> So what's the easy way?
>> 
>> Switch to Ubuntu or something? 8-O
> 
> Maybe Fedora, maybe Ubuntu?  It's more time-consuming than hard to
build a
> virtual machine these days, and it's not even that time-consuming.  Is
there a
> distro that already has what you want all packaged up?  Run it in a VM. 
Take a
> snapshot first if you want to try something potentially system-breaking or
> that's going to spew files everywhere.  On a single-user machine, the
> performance should be within a few percent of running on the bare metal. 
So,
> if you test drive some beta software and it doesn't perform well on a
VM, it's
> probably not going to be much better running on a same-spec physical
machine.
> 
> NB: I administer several hundred virtual desktops, so I chugged rather than
> sipped the virtualization Kool-Aid.  :-)
> 
> --
> -Chris
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Chris Beattie
> Sent: den 11 mars 2016 16:53
> To: 'CentOS mailing list'
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Openshot 2.x (beta) on C7??
> 
> On 3/11/2016 2:02 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote:
> >>> Looks like installing openshot 2.x on C7 isn't as trivial
> >>
> >> It is not trivial at all. The best way to handle this will be to
find
the
> >> required packages in Fedora and rebuild them.
> >
> > So what's the easy way?
> >
> > Switch to Ubuntu or something? 8-O
> 
> Maybe Fedora, maybe Ubuntu?  It's more time-consuming than hard to
build
> a virtual machine these days, and it's not even that time-consuming. 
Is
there
> a distro that already has what you want all packaged up?  Run it in a VM.
> Take a snapshot first if you want to try something potentially system-
> breaking or that's going to spew files everywhere.  On a single-user
machine,
> the performance should be within a few percent of running on the bare
> metal.  So, if you test drive some beta software and it doesn't perform
well
> on a VM, it's probably not going to be much better running on a
same-spec
> physical machine.
> 
> NB: I administer several hundred virtual desktops, so I chugged rather
than
> sipped the virtualization Kool-Aid.  :-)
Performance was just what I had in mind.
Editing video is rather hard on both cpu, ram and hd-access.

Maybe I should give Openshot a try in a VM. Nothing like real hard facts.
8-)

Thanks for the feedback Chris!

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//Sorin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Sorin Srbu
> Sent: den 14 mars 2016 07:31
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Openshot 2.x (beta) on C7??
>
> > >>> Looks like installing openshot 2.x on C7 isn't as
trivial
> > >>> It is not trivial at all. The best way to handle this
will be to
find the
> > >> required packages in Fedora and rebuild them.
> > >
> > > So what's the easy way?
> > > Switch to Ubuntu or something? 8-O
Just a heads-up;

I just installed CentOS 7 x64 on a test machine to try stuff out at work.
Went to openshot.org to download Openshot, and noticed they now have
appimages.
Just chmod +x the appimage-file and run it.

Worked like a charm on C7!
It was really fast as well, compared to running the previous version on
CentOS 6.

I might have to upgrade to CentOS 7 at home too... 8-}

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//Sorin