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Is there still limitations to using Davinci Resolve on Linux? PReviously there was only a few video formats that you could use, and USB mic would not work with fairlight.

I have always wanted to ditch Windows, however its half assed software implementation on linux that keeps me on windows.

is now the time to make the switch to linux garuda?

* h264/h265 support on linux is still limited and probably won't change for a while since it's a license/royalty thing (AFAIU OSX & windows include paid license for system wide h26x support, linux obviously doesn't).

In the studio version, you do get h264/h265 decoding. (hw accelerated on nvidia and sw on other GPUs). And you also get encoding, but only on NVidia. In v17 that's going to be less an issue though because it supports export plugins, so one for ffmpeg is bound to exist soon allowing to export in anything and using VAAPI too if available.

No AAC audio support though :/
MP3 is supported since v17.

All the other "pro" codecs work fine AFAICT (prores / cineform / dnx...).

* Audio: I'm having issues with fairlight in the 17 beta, but not sure if that's related to linux or it being beta ... (even playback in the fairlight tab is weird. Works fine in other tabs).

Hi, I confirme too
You need the studio version, because the free version do not accept H264/H265 video format, and that's the base.
The studio version working well and if you have a Nvidia Card, and you can quickly export with GPU.
Still cannot read and export AAC audio file.

Maybe your right for the Fairlight audio USB record; but i don't use it.

For the rest and for my part, nothing less than other OS versions.

But still missing for all OS versions VP8/VP9/VP9+Alpha/OPUS/OGG codec support (CPU and GPU Nvidia card can use it) maybe in the futur...

No prores on linux unless you have the advanced panel dongle (which is not the standard dongle).

@Hakim: Just re-tested fairlight in DR16 and can't get recording to work there either :/

@Thomas: Huh, VP9 works fine for me (as ingest). And as I said above, for export the plugin based system should allow pretty much anything, all VP8/VP9 variants.

@Hendrik: Ok, no prores _export_ but you can ingest prores just fine.

smunaut wrote:@Hendrik: Ok, no prores _export_ but you can ingest prores just fine.

Exactly, forgot to add it is related to export.

I have stopped using the audio input for Resolve most recently. I do have the studio version of resolve. So most of my concerns seem to be addressed. I do not export to prores but i convert my MP4 GH5 footage to prores because its just a much smoother editing experience vs h264..

Maybe I will give it another try. as i mostly do screen share tutorials now with OBS so i can adjust my work flow without too much hassle.

Thanks for the input.

Hakim Craddock wrote:Is there still limitations to using Davinci Resolve on Linux? PReviously there was only a few video formats that you could use, and USB mic would not work with fairlight.

I have always wanted to ditch Windows, however its half assed software implementation on linux that keeps me on windows.

is now the time to make the switch to linux garuda?

I personally would not recommend Garuda though. I think BTRFS is too unstable for production use. I tested it recently for almost 2 weeks and have VERY inconsistent disk performance. Taking almost 1 hour to copy what normal XFS would do in 2 minutes. It appears to a be a known bug but my point is that a show stopper of bug of that level should not be happening in a so called mature filesystem - who cares about snapshots. Additionally it's not very well tested with more than one monitor.

I would recommend Manjaro if you want to go Arch based then use XFS and a ZFS type long storage solution.

I don't care for GPU encoding as the quality vs filesize sucks compared to CPU. Export to tif and wav then use FFMPEG to mux a nice small, hq file.

Have a look here at my comparisons esp the new post of "RAW benchmark"
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