New XGL Demo Video

[SaguratuS]

Decided to try my luck with xvidcap, turned out to be a pretty big success. Biggest pain was editing it with Premiere under windows, it just can't deal with the resolution.

Been up for too long, so I'm just going to copy / paste the filefront description

An ultra high-res video of XGL running with KDE

Warning: This video requires a very decent system to playback smoothly. A large widescreen LCD is also very beneficial

Resolution: 1920x1200 (Aspect 8:5)

FPS: 30

Codec: XVID (Quant 4)

Other Notes:

Since my drives can't exactly handle writing 500GB of X screen dumps in the duration of the video, a slight compromise was made. This video was encoded in a lossless mp4 format at 10fps using xvidcap with slow visuals enabled in Compiz, and brought up to 30fps later on. This has two primary effects: Manual animation isn't fluid, such as rotating the cube, and a few plugins are a tad buggy with slow visuals enabled (Task switcher for example). Hopefully this is a significantly better demonstration over the Novell demo, and feedback / comments / questions are most welcome.

All in all making this was a learning experience

-Adobe Premiere simply can't handle this sort of resolution very well

-Uncompressed (The only way to edit it in Premiere) this video hits 100GB+ easy.

-Divx blows. Xvid on the other hand is awesome

-Reaffirmation that I -HATE- windows. Aside from what everything windows can't do, it's buggy, and crashes at the worst of times.

Think Penguin. Enjoy

MSN: [email protected]

AIM: saguratus2

Filesize: 252mb

Mirror 1: http://files.filefront.com/5020047

Mirror 2: http://www.saguratus.com/nick/xgl/xgl-kde.avi

A couple of related screencaps can be found here:

http://www.saguratus.com/nick/xgl

Edit: Updated filefront mirror - please use this first if possible

Edited April 29, 2006 by SaguratuS

[Vice]

Awesome demo. Shame it doesn't run on my System because it looks awesome and I would really love to try it out.

[estranged]

Thats pretty amazing, thanks for the link.

[SaguratuS]

Quite a few new patches came out, so I'm in the process of making an updated video detailing some of the new effects. So far things are looking extremely cool over the current (as seen in the video) compiz/xgl.

[Detroit]

Wow, when will this be available?

[Rob2687]

It already is...

[SaguratuS]

Wow, when will this be available?

Already is. A great way to get started is with the kororaa xgl livecd, however it should be noted that some work is required to get everything updated. Compiz / XGL are changing very rapidly - You'll find that a compiz build from a month ago is absolutely nothing like the current one.

http://kororaa.org

You can get XGL/Compiz running on just about any distribution. There's substantial support for Ubuntu & XGL available as well, however Gentoo is most certainly leading the bleeding edge.

[estranged]

I'd really like to try out the live cd, but do you reckon the chances of it coping on a 1.3 AMD athlon with 256mb ram (32mb of which is the graphics card) ..are slim?

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

* Minimum recommended configuration is system with 384MB RAM, Pentium3 with nVidia Geforce video card.

This livecd requires a CPU with SSE instruction support, and >256Mb RAM.

(i.e. P3 or later, if Celeron then need coppermine core. AMD users probably need Athlon XP CPUs, but run "cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep sse" to check anyway).

Oh wait, that basically answers it. Shame really.

[SaguratuS]

Very slim unfortunately. You don't need anything special to run the live-cd, but you do need a semi-ok (geforce3+) graphics card

[MajorSham]

The video was very nice. It is good to see that there are still talented developers supporting the open source community. However, I was both unsurprised and sorry to see a stab at Microsoft at the end of the video. I suppose things will never change. Those comments only serve to polarize some and humor the rest who know better than to believe sweeping generalizations made by an unknowing, inept user.

In other news, a kernel panic poured onto my screen the other day. All I was doing was running XMMS and browsing a web site. Linux is so unstable!

[_neutrino Veteran]

this might be off topic but what song was used in the making of this video i enjoyed it greatly.

[SaguratuS]

The video was very nice. It is good to see that there are still talented developers supporting the open source community. However, I was both unsurprised and sorry to see a stab at Microsoft at the end of the video. I suppose things will never change. Those comments only serve to polarize some and humor the rest who know better than to believe sweeping generalizations made by an unknowing, inept user.

In other news, a kernel panic poured onto my screen the other day. All I was doing was running XMMS and browsing a web site. Linux is so unstable!

We all have different experiences ;)

Windows DID actually crash on me 6+ times, and considering XGL/Compiz are still in the very early stages, I'd say it's doing pretty damn well. Prior to this though, things like the composite extention didn't (and still doesn't) do so well, so it's a major leap forward.

The song is "Crimson Keys" by Flashburn, you can get it off of the newgrounds audio portal.

[The Laughing Man]

I have kororaa running on my laptop (doesn't work on desktop), specs are 1.8ghz P4 M, 256mb 32mb radeon7500, works fine nice and smooth too. Infact I was really surprised at the smoothnesss , window animations ,desktop switching all smooth only issue so far was it crashes X when trying to play a video other than that XGL is coming along just fine.

[Grandaevus]

Very slim unfortunately. You don't need anything special to run the live-cd, but you do need a semi-ok (geforce3+) graphics card

I tested the kororaa cd on an old Dell computer running only the integrated Intel graphics in it. Ran very nicely so I don't really agree with the above post. Just try it is my recomendation. Its very cool.

[SaguratuS]

I tested the kororaa cd on an old Dell computer running only the integrated Intel graphics in it. Ran very nicely so I don't really agree with the above post. Just try it is my recomendation. Its very cool.

Heh, I don't have much experience with older systems and XGL, but I'm surprised that the cube plugin would work on integrated graphics. Suppose the resolution would be a major factor there as well

[SaguratuS]

Well, wanted to do the new video tonight, but it looks like the latest cvs of compiz isn't going to play nice when under load with xvidcap, so it'll have to wait a few days. The new compiz is stunning, nothing compared to the one you see in that video.

[riven]

It really annoys me. I got xgl and compiz working nicely over easter, just to have a look at the effects (im normally an openbox user). It's really good, but it's another 10 weeks until I can update it because my university proxy doesnt have ports open for svn or cvs, and are really strict on no tunnelling.

[theotherdave]

It really annoys me. I got xgl and compiz working nicely over easter, just to have a look at the effects (im normally an openbox user). It's really good, but it's another 10 weeks until I can update it because my university proxy doesnt have ports open for svn or cvs, and are really strict on no tunnelling.

I'm sure that if you asked nicely enough, someone could do a cvs snapshot for you and upload it somewhere (you send it for example).

I'd do it, but I'm no expert when it comes to svn or cvs :pinch:

[Rob2687]

Compiz

http://download.yousendit.com/EF9E7D5F438BC2FD

Xgl

http://download.yousendit.com/19845B8D41C40C44

The cvs requires the newest Xgl stuff but I'm not sure if that is the proper cvs branch that I included there... I'm not sure what the command is to get a specific branch from CVS.

[Mathiasdm]

I haven't given it a try yet, but I'm really hoping the cube effect will work on my laptop. It's a decent computer, the only bad thing is... of course... the graphics card :(

[SaguratuS]

Ok, just got the new XGL up and running which requires the CVS builds of xorg/xgl/mesa. Going to try my luck with xvidcap again.

[Imaginos]

The song is "Crimson Keys" by Flashburn, you can get it off of the newgrounds audio portal.

Actually, the music is Mike Oldfield's "The Top of the Morning", off of his Tubular Bells III album. You can hear samples of it here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000DAT...v=glance&n=5174

That was a nice electronic cover of it, and I hope it was just accidental that it's misnamed on newgrounds.. It's a very good album and well worth picking up.

And on topic.. That was a great video. I run 10.0 OSS as it is and like everyone, I'm looking forward to 10.1 coming out too. Shame there isn't much out there for Linux digital editing yet.

[SaguratuS]

Actually, the music is Mike Oldfield's "The Top of the Morning", off of his Tubular Bells III album. You can hear samples of it here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000DAT...v=glance&n=5174

That was a nice electronic cover of it, and I hope it was just accidental that it's misnamed on newgrounds.. It's a very good album and well worth picking up.

And on topic.. That was a great video. I run 10.0 OSS as it is and like everyone, I'm looking forward to 10.1 coming out too. Shame there isn't much out there for Linux digital editing yet.

Taken off of newgrounds

A remake for my favorite Mike Oldfield song. It took me forever but easily worth a listen

It's not misnamed, it is crimson keys ;)