[Kdenlive-devel] Export timeline progress dialog box...

[CAULIER Gilles]

Le Mercredi 25 Juin 2003 12:45, Rolf Dubitzky a écrit :
>  Grabbing is almost working.

Excelent !!! I'm very impatient to test this new feature...

> The infrastructure is there which is the most
> imporant thing, since the ieee1394 interface an also the realtime
> requirement of the grabbing process requires a multi threaded environment.
> Already available is a utility 'pgrab' that lets you connect to your VCR
> and start/stop/wind it. You can either watch the video stream or write it
> to a file (or both). The only thing left to do is to integrate this into
> piave (btw, i would like to rename the piave server process from 'piave' to
> 'piaved' to indicate that it is a demon, what do you think?). I will add a
> bunch of new VEML commands, like
>  <AvcPlay/>
>  <AvcStop/>
>  <AvcStartCapture/>
>  <AvcSeekTimeCode time="12:34:56.12" />
>  ...
> There will also be a number of more complicated commands like
>  <AvcGetDevices>
> where piave will answer something like
>  <reply ....>
>     <avcdevice>SONY DCR-30</avcdevice>
>     <avcdevice>Panasonic XV12</avcdevice>
>  </reply>
> The most complicated command will probably be
>  <AvcStartTapeAnalysis>
> where the answer will be a list of recordings on the tape. Eventually I
> would like kdenlive to provide a dialog where I can see all the scenes on
> the physical tape and then select (checkbox) which ones to capture.

Good idea. I think Piave must grab just the first frame of each scene. 
Kdenlive will show this grab on a dialog box... What do think about ?

>
> On very important (and technically challenging) thing is how to get small
> previews of frames into kdenlive.

In a temporay folder on the hdd ?

> We need them in the timeline and also in
> the tape-analysis dialog. Last time we talked about it we thought about a
> pipe in the filesystem. I have no better idea up to now so I will start to
> look into pipes. Any better ideas?

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CAULIER Gilles