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SynthEyes on Linux Systems

At Last! The WINE programmers recently solved a long-standing problem affecting 3-D applications on Linux that use OpenGL within child windows—a group of major applications including SynthEyes. Without it, the perspective window and graph editor are unusable. At the cost some CPU time during operation, this has been solved.

You need to use WINE version 0.9.47 or later. As of March 2008, this WINE build has not been integrated into the Codeweaver's CrossOver product, but that will hopefully occur soon.

We haven't tested SynthEyes on WINE for a while, not since 2005 or so. So the information below is a bit old; you're on your own running SynthEyes on linux for the moment. 

Limitations

• The OpenGL solution described above requires some nontrivial capabilities from the video card, so it is possible that only fairly recent nVidia and ATI cards will have the necessary support.
• Installing the correct video driver into Linux is advisable to enhance image redraw speed. Windows is very fast on image redraw because it is based on video playback.
• The DirectX-based source formats are not supported, ie AVIs. This shouldn't be a significant issue for production use, which typically uses sequenced images.
• QuickTime formats should be supported once you install QuickTime, which is a supported application under CrossOver.

Running Directly Under WINE

It should be possible to install and run SynthEyes directly under WINE. The installer may fail midway, but after the files have been decompressed. You will need to set up your own shortcuts to start SynthEyes. You can also set up a file association on the .sni file type for SynthEyes.