From: Christian B. <ein...@do...> - 2002-10-25 20:29:10
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Am Freitag, 25. Oktober 2002 21:21 schrieben Sie: > On Friday 25 Oct 2002 7:50 pm, Christian Berger wrote: > > > > > Easy. But my engine can do _much_ more already. And of course I > > > > > don't want to get the features burried because the XML can't > > > > > handle them ;-) > > > > > > > > What kind of things are you talking about here? Is it a case of > > > > transitions, effects, etc? > > > > > > Yes. My goal is neither an engine nor a GUI, I want a video > > > solution. I will not work on effects for an engine I cannot use in > > > the GUI. If somebody else wants a gui that ignores half of the > > > features, ok, I would say that both needs to go hand in hand. > > > > Well the GUI can do all effects by definition. An effect is just like > > a function in a compiler. You have inputs and parameters and a name. > > Maybe later even something which specifies how the effects should be > > previewed in the engine. > > The realisation that I have had recently is that if you are going to > make a preview, you might as well ask the cutter to do it. If you don't, > then you have to effectively duplicate a cutter within the GUI, and you > will also have a great amount of inconsistancy between what the preview > is and what the final output will be. True, but generating a preview frame takes a lot of time anyhow, so the overhead of moving it around is minimal. > This, along with the need to ensure that the GUI is capable of viewing > exactly the same files that the cutter can generate that makes me think > it is essential to use the cutter dierctly for all playback. Well at least for my cutter (which I still haven't started) this probably isn't to much of a problem because I'm going to use mplayer as a decoder. Maybe we can also seek to a position with a normal player and then ask the cutter to give it's frame of the current position, that way you would have all three, independance, speed and accuracy. > My plan on how to do this will all become (hopefully!) clear as to how > to do this when I upload the null cutter. Good, thanks. > Cheers, > Jason Servus Casandro -- Warning! (this is no commercial ad) This e-mail probably will be read by secret services. Therefore please get pgp or gnupg and send me your public key so we e-mail encryptedly. http://www.gnupg.org/ |