[Kdenlive-devel] Stability (was: off-line video editing)

[Simon Eugster]

Branislav Nakic wrote:
> for youtube videos beause of is it's instability. I think you guys have 
> done a great job with the interface and features so maybe you should 
> concentrate on those crashes?

If it were as easy as that. Eliminate all crashes at once. You first need 
to find and reproduce them ...

At the moment fixing crashes and adding features goes hand in hand. And in 
my opinion it's good that way. Not only because of the reason mentioned 
above -- that just quickly fixing all errors isn't possible -- but also 
because a) new features happen to add new bugs and b) you can't just block 
all kind of development for some time. We aren't full time kdenlive devs.

What will help us is the community featuring bug reports in mantis. I've 
been working with kdenlive since end of January. At this time I've reported 
the bug report #600. Today we're at over #966. Stability has increased a 
lot since then. The first video I did was a pain because after every time 
loading the project I had to re-adjust things. With the current SVN it has 
started to be fun.


Now something else. Does anyone of you know valgrind? Finding memory leaks 
and so on? Could this help us locating problems?


Ah, and please correct me if I'm wrong. It is only my understanding of the 
situation.

Simon