[Kdenlive-devel] change in cutlist

[Christian Berger]

Am Donnerstag, 3. Oktober 2002 17:49 schrieben Sie:
> On Wednesday 02 Oct 2002 12:48 pm, Christian Berger wrote:
> > Servus
> >
> > I'm sorry for not responding for such a long time, but I don't have
> > regular internet access at the moment. Well...
> > Would it be possible to allign the commands to character cells?
> > Kinda like it was done in Cobol. This would make parsing a lot easier.
>
> It doesn't really make parsing any easier, it just makes the syntax of
> the file stricter.
>
> I'd be more inclined to suggest using XML for the format instead, which
> doesn't make it easier to code the parser :-) but that doesn't matter
> because their are plenty of XML parsing libraries floating about that
> can be used.

Well OK, if I can find one which is easier to use than writing it myself 
we can do so. Maybe we can put the list of files into the <sceene> tag.

> > We might also change the definition of a sceene, so we have all files
> > open on their correct positions. So the sceene includes a list of all
> > the files to be opened for it. Those files then are only opened for
> > the scene.
>
> I thought that was the plan anyway :-)
>
> That's fine. From the cutting list's point of view, files are opened for
> one scene, and then closed at the end of it. It may be that the cutter
> itself optimises away some of these file open/close operations but that
> is up to the cutter.
> do you think?

Sounds good, this also takes into account that the cutter should do all 
the "file-operations" by itself.

> > My current idea is to write a transcoder form the KDENLive cutlist to
> > the lavpipe cutlist. That way, we can use lavpipe for our early work.
> > Later on we can write our own cutters.
>
> At the moment, I am pretty much waiting to get my hands on KDE 3.1
> before I can do anything else. The multimedia framework is apparently
> much better than it was so I want to see if it will benefit Kdenlive.
>
> Unfortunately I don't have the harddisk space to keep up with KDE CVS,
> but I hope to change that situation soon :-)

Well let's see, I'm going to get a new version of SuSE Linux, too.

> Cheers,
> Jason

Servus
  Casandro

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