[Kdenlive-devel] Re: kino and next steps

[Jason Wood]

On Monday 13 Jan 2003 6:49 pm, Rolf Dubitzky wrote:
> So here is a question:
>
> I can think of two major things I can start working on:
>
> 1) reading other file formats. I looked into xine-lib, and it actually
> looks pretty nice. clean, understandable code. Simpler than ffmpeg. They
> also got a fmpeg plugin, amongst many others. They don't have encoding, but
> I think I might get aRts and video also video (replace SDL, reduce
> dependencies). Other than reported framerates and windows sizes, this
> should go pretty unnoticed by the GUI.
> 2) implement ieee1394 support, so that you can grab video from your cam.
>    This envolves a lot of GUI and communication stuff
>
> It depends on the users. If the target is DV people, we need grabbing, if
> not, other people might prefere to be able to cut mpeg files. I am more
> interested in grabbing, but it migh be the case, that I am alone with this.
> What do you think should go first?

At this moment in time, I think that file formats are more important than 
capturing.

Here is my reasoning :

1. Capturing works fine in Kino, and kdenlive is fully capable of reading (one 
of) kino's file formats, so getting files onto their computer is not too big 
an issue for most people. It's annoying to have two programs where one should 
be enough, but it is not that bad for now.

2. For me, the major problem I have is that I have a number of movie clips on 
my computer in non-editable formats (such as avi's, mpegs, or a sequence of 
png files generated by blender), which I currently cannot use in kdenlive. 
For me, this is more than annoying, it prevents me from doing some things 
that I would like to be able to. Also, people without the ability to capture 
DV can still help with testing, assuming that they can get clips onto their 
computer - and DV clips aren't the nicest thing in the world to download.

3. NTSC won't work properly in kdenilve until file formats are supported. (I 
need to be told - via <getCapabilities/> - what file formats piave can export 
to)

Cheers,
Jason

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Jason Wood
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