Category: Free/Open-Source software
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Status update — new Pitivi timeline, GSoC projects, etc
Dear shareholders fans, here is the quarterly report from the frontlines of Pitivi, your favorite futuretrocyberpunk video editor. I will cover the following from a very high-level view (I’ll have to make separate blog posts to cover them in detail, there’s too much to say): The state of our multimedia stack Our new timeline canvas…
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No more stuck rendering dialogs!
If you’ve tried rendering projects with Pitivi 0.15 or older, chances are you’ve encountered one of these dreadful situations where the rendering process would get stuck: …at the beginning, with the progressbar saying it’s currently “estimating” — which was a lie that I corrected a little while ago. …at the very end. Extra trolling points…
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PiTiVi and the 2013 Summer of Code
This year will be a little bit different. In a rather unexpected turn of events, PiTiVi has been accepted as a mentoring organization but GStreamer has not. Fear not however, as GStreamer has no better ally than the PiTiVi team when it comes to pushing our favorite multimedia framework to its limits and beyond. As…
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A program's obsolescence
In 2005, I had a crazy idea upon which I started the Specto project. Initially, I thought I’d call my revolutionary piece of software WhileYouWereOut (continuing the world’s tradition of ill-chosen project names), because it really was about solving a core “want” in my life: to leave my computer alone and catch up with events…
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Prenez garde aux tabloïdes de l'open-source
En tant que contributeur à divers logiciels libres, j’en ai marre de voir comment ils sont traités dans la « presse » en ligne. J’ai procrastiné un mois sur la publication de ce billet: le rédiger me prend déjà toute ma motivation pour combattre le sentiment de DonQuichottude par rapport au phénomène, surtout lorsque je crains d’être…
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Fedora 18: now keyboard-friendly to everybody
It is fashionable these days, especially for the Slashdot crowd, bloggers, kernel hackers and other people depending on “feature X that has not fully polished”, to throw mud at the efforts that have been made towards redesigning the Fedora Linux installer. When people trash the work you’ve been doing fully in the open for over…
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GNOME 3 and login performance
How about we revive the Performance wiki page and make it a goal for GNOME 3.8 (or 3.10) to finally reach our 2005-2007 target of a “3 seconds login time”? Our current login performance is pretty bad. We do way too much I/O and processing. If you write an application or service that automatically starts…
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Getting Things GNOME 0.3: retour vers le futur
J’aimerais tout simplement saluer le travail de l’équipe de développement derrière GTG, mon logiciel favori (si si, logiciel favori, point final ! Il est essentiel à ma survie). Pour vous donner le contexte, j’écrivais cette note personnelle dans Tomboy en 2006, suite à la lecture de Getting Things Done: Nostalgie? Tout à fait. Maintenant, retour vers le…
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Lightworks is not anywhere close to open-source
I’ve seen everybody hail Lightworks as the messiah that will make all other open source video editors irrelevant. So far, I didn’t blog about this (because frankly, life’s too short to be pessimistic, and I was also quite curious as to how it would play out and wanted to give EditShare the benefit of the…
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How do you visualize grouping?
Here’s a tricky usability question: how would you represent the actions of grouping and ungrouping clips on a timeline? (Un)grouping is used for changing the way selections affect a set of clips. It allows you, among other things, to separate and remove the audio from the video of a clip. It is very hard to…