[Kdenlive-devel] radz at ya.ru

[Dan Dennedy]

On Feb 10, 2008 11:49 AM, Kyle Hotchkiss <hotchkikr at gmail.com> wrote:
> what exactly does that mean,
> background processing? Does this mean multiple encoding?

In the near term, yes, it would mean multiple encoding including using
another machine that has access to the files. In the long term, when I
add "pass-through" to MLT, then it could render parts that just need
rendering. This pass-through thing is something like when you are
working with DV sources (not necessarily exclusively) and are
exporting to DV. Then, the framework would pass the original DV frame
from input through to output on those parts of the timeline where
there is no processing. Kino, for example, does this except you have
to render each part explicitly. This pass-through capability would
apply to any format, not just DV, where that can be reasonably
supported, but there are some obvious ones like uncompressed and
MJPEG. We will strive for other formats like MPEG-2 that have temporal
compression, but that will be more difficult, obviously. Again, most
of this is forward-looking, but there is a foundation laid for job
queuing, processing, and distribution of jobs to remote machines.