The Open Sourcerer

Category: Planet GNOME

  • Break the kettles and sink the boats

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    This is it.  The “ges” branch of Pitivi has been merged to “master”. The changes that have been merged are quite significant: over four hundred commits, 175 files changed, 13943 insertions and 30341 deletions (net result: more than 16 thousand lines of code removed while at the same time adding features and solving longstanding bugs). While “master” is…

  • Quart de siècle

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    Today, I am turning 25 years old. Holy carp. A quarter of a century old. At this rate, how the heck can I solve the massive amount of bugs remaining in GNOME and GStreamer in only a hundred years?

  • Thumbnails are back

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    …it’s back. And it will not stop until it has accomplished its mission. This week, Daniel Thul fixed and reactivated the clip thumbnailing code for Pitivi’s timeline. But he didn’t just stop there. No sir. He implemented caching too, and that made my week. We don’t just process thumbnails on-demand anymore, we now save them to…

  • Surviving Git

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    Git can feel extremely unnatural to those who came from Bazaar. Only after a lot of advice from friends, the right tools and a few months of intensive usage did I feel confident enough to use it without fear. Many are probably in the same boat as me though, so I took a couple of…

  • PiTiVi GES spring sitrep

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    Now that the Internet is back to normal, here’s a status update on what I’ve been busy doing lately. You may remember my initial donation experiment last month where I presented the new realtime trimming preview feature—I was not kidding. It’s merged in the pitivi “ges” development branch now, with some additional improvements tacked on.…

  • GSoC 2012 and PiTiVi

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    Are you a student who wants to get involved in shaping the future of open source video editing? Are you looking for a friendly project providing stimulating challenges and a well-established codebase and expertise? Then consider applying for the Summer of Code programme to work on Pitivi or GES! See this page for the list…

  • Switching PiTiVi's main git repository

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    Due to public demand, the official main repository for PiTiVi is now git.gnome.org/pitivi instead of git://git.pitivi.org/git/pitivi.git This has many advantages: It reduces confusion. It prevents potential contributors from thinking we’re a dead project or something. We’re a killer project, that’s completely different. No need to manage two “official” repositories (one for development and one for translations)…

  • What the heck is this GES thing anyway?

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    “GES. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Unless you’ve been following the PiTiVi’s development very closely lately, it is often hard to imagine what GES does and how important it is to PiTiVi. I therefore wrote an explanatory page about it and updated the architecture overview…

  • Trim like a professional hair stylist

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    In my spare time this week I implemented one of my favorite missing features in PiTiVi: a live preview of what you’re trimming. No more fuzzying around and moving the playhead all the time to figure out if you cut your scene right. No more trial and error. Just pure, unadulterated productivity. HTML5 video below:…

  • Y U NO GTK3 YET?

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    Some folks were probably wondering why PiTiVi is still using GTK2. Now you know: