[piksel] Re: [PD] Piksel'05
Ian Smith-Heisters
heisters at 0x09.com
Wed Aug 17 15:23:50 CEST 2005
At the risk of being non-sequitor, I'd like to chip in here. I just
caught this latest post in the thread, so many apologies if this has
been covered or is off-topic.
Christian Klippel wrote:
>>I have often been surprised by linux developers' seemingly lack of interest
>>for anything that goes on outside their own application. The general
>>attituse seems to be that 'the other stuff is not my responsibility, so I
>>just have to blindly rely on what other coders are doing'. This is
>>specially true for video apps where everybody seems to be closing their
>>eyes for things like the lack of a unified high-quality playback-engine and
>>free hq codecs.
>>
The problem here is largely that linux developers are developing for
fun, and thus have no obligation to take on unwanted responsibilities.
Until these developers are compensated in some way, they'll generally do
whatever suits their fancy; which is better than the alternative, which
is that we don't do any work at all.
>>We should learn from the linux audio community and their effort to advocate
>>the low-latency patches which is finally in the latest kernels.
>>We not only need a video-jack but also a video-alsa!
>>
I have often thought about this, and the fact that video apps are
generally behind audio apps in open source. I personally think there are
two reasons for this: 1) Video requires a lot more in the way of system
resources because of its high data rate (as compared to audio). This has
slowed video FLOSS video development because FLOSS is generally
developed on commodity hardware, which to this day has trouble doing
fancy processing on video in RT. 2) (more theoretically) I think there's
more of a tradition of technological innovation in music because music
has always depended on technology (eg. instruments). Thus computer music
is becoming a rather mature genre. OTOH, film has been around for about
100 years (as opposed to millions) and hasn't yet developed as mature of
a culture of research and innovation as music. Of course, film is by its
very nature technological, moreso even than music. But when multimedia
computers debuted in the early nineties, music was already set to take
advantage of them, while film took longer, both because of the increased
demands film places on a system, and because film hadn't yet developed a
need for such technology.
Yes? No? Just a little musing.
-Ian
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