[Kdenlive-devel] call piave from kdenlive

[Jason Wood]

On Monday 23 Dec 2002 1:14 pm, Rolf Dubitzky wrote:
> Ahhh.. something I forgot. I think it's pretty anoying to always call piave
> first and then start kdenlive in a another shell. Is it possible to call
> 'piave -s' (or '-s -v' ) from kdenlive on startup? The feature, that piave
> and kdenlive are independent processes maybe shouldn't be exposed to users
> too much?

I tried to do this when I initially wrote the KRender class (you'll see some 
half-finished methods, currently commented out). I stopped working on it 
because I had problems setting a working directory with the KProcess class 
(used for creating new processes). At the time it was a little early to 
expect Piave to load DV clips using absolute filenames.

I can code up a config dialog to be able to select the path to piave, which 
should not be too difficult, but it makes sense to have the scenelist working 
first so that piave can be given absolute filepaths.

BTW, could you extend the -s command line option so that it can take a port 
number i.e. 

piave -s 6100

I'm not sure if any other programs use 6100 - I chose it at random - and would 
like it to be user-definable :-)

Cheers,
Jason

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Jason Wood
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