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Hi. I was user of Video Studio for years. It was my favorite program but now as a Linux user am not able to have that great video editing suite on my computer. Why Corel doesn't produce a Linux version? Is not that hard anymore to port a program or make it Wine Compatible...

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We would have no idea why Corel does not.

I assume you have tried to load it via Wine and failed?? I have a computer with Ubuntu 8.04 on it and checked the huge Wine database but couldn't find any reference to Ulead products in it. However, as a Ubuntu newbie, I haven't had the confidence to try to load VS on that machine. But like you, I would be interested to know if it were possible, or could be developed...

I assume you have tried to load it via Wine and failed??

Yes. And I don't know why it fails, no error message or something that could help.

PS: Ulead = Corel or not?

linux wrote:

I assume you have tried to load it via Wine and failed??

Yes. And I don't know why it fails, no error message or something that could help.

PS: Ulead = Corel or not?

Yes, "Corel User to User Web Board" = Corel? No We are just a bunch of more advanced users trying to help others out there if we can.

Hi. I was user of Video Studio for years. It was my favorite program but now as a Linux user am not able to have that great video editing suite on my computer.

This is why most audio/video professionals choose their software first, and then buy the hardware/operating system to run it.

Is not that hard anymore to port a program...

Porting is difficult. If porting were that easy, you could walk into a computer store and buy any application for any platform, and software vendors would simultaneously release software for PCs, Macs, and Linux (and other operating systems). The operating system would become irrelevant (or less-relevant). Of course, this is why Windows holds-on to the #1 position. It's the most popular OS, so more software is written for it, so it remains the most popular because more software is available for it...

I have no idea what programming tools, languages, or libraries are used to make Video Studio, but most real-world software contains lots of platform-specific code which makes porting to another platform difficult-enough that most software suppliers don't even attempt it.

...or make it Wine Compatible.

I don't know much about Wine, but it's really Wine's job to make this work... Video Studio is designed for Windows, and Wine is designed to make Windows programs run on Linux... If Wine worked "perfectly", that would be great! It would give customers/users more choice and would take-away some of Microsoft's "monopoly". But, emulating/duplicating Windows is a monumental task, and it's a moving target. ...Heck, it would be nice if Windows worked perfectly.

DVDDoug wrote:I have no idea what programming tools, languages, or libraries are used to make Video Studio, but most real-world software contains lots of platform-specific code which makes porting to another platform difficult-enough that most software suppliers don't even attempt it.

It's probably made using Microsoft Visual Studio. Most softwares for Windows are made with it. So the difficulty in porting VideoStudio to linux is that they would have to rewrite it almost from scratch. I'm a programmer and I find it incredibly stupid to write a software that is bind to a development tool like Visual Studio. If you write a software in C or C++ you should make effort to write code that will compile with most compilers and most operating system. It's not that easy but it will pay. DOS and OS/2 doesn't exist anymore. Who knows what will happen to Windows in the future. I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't exist anymore in 10 years.

DVDDoug wrote:But, emulating/duplicating Windows is a monumental task, and it's a moving target. ...Heck, it would be nice if Windows worked perfectly.

Emulating / duplicating Windows is a monumental mistake! People should put effort in developing software that run natively on linux!