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If you're a at least slighty geeky person and fancy of C, I definitely recommend you to check a thing called CUDA. Basically it's a way to use the GPU present at your nVidia graphics card for arbitrary parallel processing. And when I say parallel, I'm not thinking about stupid four cores but about 192 cores (available on GeForce GTS 450, reasonable basic model, but other cards have up to 1024 cores). I'm not a CUDA guru, I'm playing with it for a few days, but maybe this post could help you not to do the first steps more easily - especially if you're using Gentoo like me ...

As I became responsible for recording and processing videos from regular CZJUG meetings, I had to learn how to perform basic video processing in Linux - years ago I did this on Windows in Adobe Premiere, so I have been looking fro a similarly comfortable and flexible solution. I guess you are trying to solve about the same problem, so lets review my solution based on ffmpeg and kdenlive.

Installing Oracle 11g (R2) on an unsupported distribution (currently there are three supported ones - Oracle Enterprise Linux, Red Hat and SuSe) may be a bit of a problem - especially if the distribution is "progressive" i.e. contains fresh versions of different tools (compiler, libraries) and is not based on RPM packages. And both of these are true for Gentoo, so lets see what problems may occur during the installation (and how to solve them).

About a year ago I've bought an Eee PC 1000H netbook made by Asus - right from the beginning I've been using it with Gentoo which is my favourite distribution, with a KDE 3.5. There were some issues but most of the time it ran just fine. But as I'm a notorious breaker and I ignore most of the messages produced by portage, the netbook reached a point of no return - there was no other way than a fresh install - this time with a KDE 4.3 environment.

I forwarn you this is not an installation guide - after all we have a great Gentoo Handbook for that. It's rather a collection of useful and interesting information specific for the 1000H (and maybe other netbooks too), eg. kernel configuration, use flags, issues I've ran into, etc.