Linux REDCINE!

[Kyle Mallory]

Well, not quite, but...

For all you linux users like me, I just wanted to share (because someone else shared with me), that you can install, and run REDCINE in Linux using wine.

It is not bullet proof, as it will occasionally hang on startup, but once started, it appears to run as reliably, and as fast, as REDCINE on Windows.


How do you do it?

• Install Wine.
• Install msttcorefonts for you linux distribution.
• Copy all fonts from msttcorefonts (usually /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts) into Wine (~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts).
• Download REDCINE from www.red.com/support (be sure to download the Windows version).
• Extract the RedCineSetup.msi file from the .ZIP file that you downloaded, and put it someplace convenient, like your home directory.
• Then run: msiexec /i RedCineSetup.msi

Again, its not bullet-proof, so, take this with a grain of salt, and a shot of tequila, and if it fries your computer and your data, forget I ever said anything... but if you're a linux guy, and hate booting into windows just to process some footage, its not a bad way to go.

I haven't tried, but I suspect RedAlert/RedLine may also work this way as well. I hope to try later today and I'll post my finding.

Enjoy.

 

[Stephen Gentle]

I did actually try this quite a while ago, and it wouldn't run at all. Then, I saw a fix like "Fonts rendered incorrectly in REDCINE" in a Wine release announcement a while ago, so I gave it another shot and I was amazed with how well it worked...

Mostly everything works, but it was quite slow. This is not a great machine though (1GB of Ram, embedded graphics card with shared memory etc.), and I don't have a Windows installation I can benchmark it against, so I'm not sure if it's any slower because of Wine (this is not usually the case though - as Wine doesn't emulate hardware, but rather abstract Windows API calls to Linux or Unix calls. This means that it's usually close to or better than the speed of running in Windows).

 

[Kyle Mallory]

Yeah, make sure you are running with an Nvidia card, with the latest NVidia drives, and you are NOT running compiz-fusion or any other form of 3d accelerated desktop goodies, or other 3D apps. While you can do it, any process the borrows the nvidia graphics library, such as compiz-fusion, or blender, etc, will seriously impact the performance of other apps which use it (RedCine).

My biggest complaint, is that Wine doesn't seem to really support multi-threading. According to my process monitor, I am only use 1 of my 4 cores when decoding my R3D footage.