On Sun, 06 May 2007 14:54:25 -0400 Joe Smith <jes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've been using audacity from the Fedora repo on my FC5 system since > a year ago, and it's worked very well. However, the last update > > /var/log/yum.log.1:Nov 14 12:18:28 Updated: audacity.i386 1.2.5-3.fc5 > > badly broke it. With a 30s chunk of generated audio, it seems ok, but > with any audio read from a file, the GUI has a terrible lag. E.g if I > click on the track to place the cursor, there is a ~1 second lag > before the audio cursor appears, and during that 1s, the CPU is > pegged. As I add more audio to the project, the delay gets longer and > longer. With 45 minutes of audio, the interface delay is 5-6s and the > CPU is at 100% almost constantly. It's nearly impossible to work with > the program at that point. > > Is anyone having better success? Does it work better on FC6/7? > > Any ideas for debugging or fixing this? > > <Joe > I am using audacity on fc6 and I have not noticed that issue at all. I am not working with files that large though. Maybe 10 minutes of audio. The package is different as well, audacity-1.3.2-8.fc6. You could go to http://audacity.sourceforge.com and ask on the mailing lists.
