Re: DaVinci Resolve on Linux - Install issues
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2018 1:33 am
Sulo Kokki wrote:Yup. Dwayne or Peter @BMD, could we please get a subsection for Linux? The topic is a bit too wide to be enclosed in one big thread. As you can see, because of this new users keep asking the same questions all over again.
yes -- you're right! -- this single thread isn't the most useful way to find the necessary answers. but that's just more or less negligible part of the problem. the much more important deficiency should be seen in the fact, that BMD didn't solve any of the issues reported by users here in this thread in its release cycles. just take changelogs of all new versions since resolve for linux was released and search for the keyword "linux". you will hardly find any important improvement concerning this operating system.
many of the reported issues here in this board are easily fixable for developers with minimal efforts. and it's much more useful, if some grave flaws get fixed in a proper way by the upstream distributors, than forcing all affected users to use the same ugly hacks on and on again. serious feedback and reproducible bug reports about using relsolve in the real world and on widely used realistic linux setups is IMHO much more useful for more satisfaying development at the source, than most of those hacks and workarounds shared by the user community to compensate everlasting issues. sure, i really like it, if users help each other, but it shouldn't be seen as to only way to solve issues in the long run.
i personally simply got tired to explain the necessary simple changes. i did it in length at the past, but as long as none of the BMD developers is listening or they still deny to include all the necessary fixes in the upstream product, this simply doesn't show any sustainable consequences.
theenngee wrote:The Linux version is really picky with import formats. The Lite version supports Apple and Avid video codecs (Prores, DNXHD/R), the Studio version includes h.264/5.
Sound output is currently only via a BMD expansion card (Decklink, Intensity) or breakout box (Ultrastudio, via Thunderbolt). Supported audio formats include WAV and AIFF.
yes -- in the real world, if friends and other linux users ask me about using this software on their beloved operating system, i still have to conclude: "don't try it, it 's simply unusable on this platform! -- if you really want to utilize resolve on linux workstations, you still have to utilize complicated virtual machine setups and the windows version, because even this crazy workaround is in fact much more usable in practice compared to the really insufficient official linux release."