From: Stefan K. <en...@ho...> - 2008-03-31 18:33:15
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Hi, I looked at your proposal. The application would make a nice addition to the gnome platform. Still its a long way to get there. Transcoding media would be a nice service as such, but also a good addition for applictions like Conduit. One 'missing' piece on the way there are encoding profiles [1]. I think it would be good to rescope the project a bit - right clicking a file in nautilus and transcoding to something. The dvd ripping part is handled by thoggen already. Although I assume thoggen would be interested in the encoder options. The third part - changing the audio track of a video - is maybe better done in e.g. pitivi (which again would love to get a encoder opetions dialog). I would offer to mentor your project, if you are fine with setting a smaller goal. STefan [1] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/wiki/EncodingProfiles Roberto Fagá schrieb: > Ok, hello community! > > I was writing the application for this project, and I created a wiki > with more details: > http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/wiki/MediaTrans > (the name could be another) > I would love to have suggestions and criticisms! > Also, this project is an application using gstreamer, so could it be > judged as a gnome application too? I was in doubt with it, but using > the criteria by Christian Schaller, on his blog, I'll need much more > help in gstreamer than in interfaces. > And Stefan, I pretend to continue in the project the Summer of Code, > as I am in OLPC after I participated GSoC last year (also this project > could be ported to Sugar - OLPC's OS too). > > Thanks for all! > Roberto > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Stefan Kost <en...@ho...> wrote: >> Hi Roberto, >> >> >> >> Quoting Roberto Fagá <rob...@gm...>: >> >> > Hello Stefan Kost >> > >> > I was writing an application to Summer of Code, and found you will be >> > the mentor of gstreamer projects. Let me (try to) be small and >> > objective about the idea which I have for an application. >> > It is a media operator, or multimedia if you prefer, a program to let >> > user convert videos, audio and images across different formats, plus >> > extract audio from videos, merge image and audio into a video and >> > these kind of operations. I thought in a set of glade interfaces which >> > user select easily the operation and operations are done on background >> > with gstreamer.The main goal is to bring easy use to user on daily use >> > (how many 'use's), using all gstreamer lib resources as possible. >> > >> > Suggestions? Is this project nice to gstreamer or should I try >> > another organization? >> >> I put the gstreamer mailing list in CC. I suggest that you subscribe >> there and discuss the proposal there too. We can also talk on irc >> about this. If you look at http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/apps/ you >> can see that most applications are media-players. Your brief proposal >> describes a nice tool that we don't have in this form. There are some >> tools already for subtasks, but some of those seems to be not that >> active. Some examples >> convert sounds : Sound Converter >> convert to ogg files : OggConvert >> There is also GEntrans targetting transcoding. >> >> I definitely encourage you to write a proposal. As this is an >> extensive project I recommend that you structure the features into >> iterations (basic features, addition #1 (e.g. audio related), addition >> #2 (e.g. video related)). I hope you also plan to work on this beyond >> the summer. >> >> >> > >> > Thanks for the attention! >> > >> > Roberto Faga >> > >> >> Ciao >> Stefan >> >> |