Re: Missing apps for GNOME



On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 21:36 +0100, Matteo Settenvini wrote:
> As for my everyday use, I've come to think of some of them:
>   1. A good movie editor. A lot of people like to film their holidays
> and do a DVD of it, for example. In Windows, you've that crappy built-in
> software which is using WMV as a default format. Mac OS X, it comes with
> iMovie. The Diva Project showed to be promising, but it seems quite dead
> now. It was written in C#.

There's also PiTiVi, which is still in active development, even if it
doesn't seem to be quite as sophisticated as Diva was yet. It's written
in Python.
http://www.pitivi.org/wiki/Main_Page

>   2. DVD authoring capabilities for an existing burner software. Someone
> is speaking of the upcoming K3b to have some features in, can someone
> confirm? I would like to pick some movies, create chapters and menus,
> and put the whole on a DVD. In Windows, see for example what Nero does.
> Btw, would it be better to work on GNOME Baker, Brasero, or do a
> stand-alone app for this?

I would love to see this! Even the most basic capabilities, converting a
video clip to a single DVD title without menus, would be a huge step in
the right direction.

There's an open bug for Brasero to add this, so it seems to be a good
place to start. Preferably something like this would use GStreamer as a
backend, so we don't need to add a whole other video infrastructure
(mencoder), but I don't know if it's possible.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456305

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Sven Arvidsson
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