Category: Planet GNOME
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Cool video editor seeks ingenious students: PiTiVi and the Summer of Code
The 2011 edition of Google’s Summer of Code is here! As per previous years, PiTiVi may participate under the umbrella of GNOME and GStreamer (which are both mentoring organizations for this year’s SoC projects). If you are a student who loves video editing and multimedia in general, you have the tremendous opportunity to shape the…
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On GtkSwitch
GTK3 includes the new switch button. Sadly, at the time of this writing, there seems to be no HIG recommendation for it yet so I’m left to guess what its proper use should or shouldn’t be. I’m all for choice/flexibility for developers, but what has been worrying me slightly in the new Control Center is the…
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Searching your Media Library
Although my changes were implemented back in December, I had to wait until they were merged today to blog about them: searching the Media Library is now possible in PiTiVi git, which is a feature I wanted for a long time (it makes it much easier to deal with large amounts of footage in a…
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SFLphone translators and package maintainers needed
I’d like to take a minute to tell you about one of the apps I’ve been passionately using. It is probably one of the lesser-known, fly-under-the-radar stealth ninja killer apps that just deserves some serious kudos and some publicity on Planet GNOME. SFLphone is an open source SIP and IAX2 (Asterisk) VoIP softphone. Except that this…
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88 watts per hour
Surprisingly enough, it seems that GNOME Power Manager does not handle time paradoxes properly. If you run GNOME on a DeLorean or have your computer clock go back in time, it seems that g-p-m’s statistics does not take this into account, and draws… interesting graphs: I was about to file a bug report on this…
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Reorganizing the wiki
Since there doesn’t seem to be much demand for video tutorials on “how to contribute to PiTiVi”, I have been thinking about how to reorganize the wiki. Indeed, a comment on my previous blog post made me realize how hopelessly messy our documentation for new contributors was. I pictured myself as a stranger to the…
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Community involvement
Although PiTiVi is a FLOSS project developed entirely in the open (that is, everything is public/transparent), I have been told that it still feels intimidating for potential new contributors. Believe it or not, I spend a lot of time thinking about that and smoothing out that process. Sometimes I still find myself a bit surprised…
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New project settings and rendering UI
It’s no secret that PiTiVi‘s “project settings” and “rendering” dialogs were huge, rigid, and, as Linus would have called them, stupid and ugly: …Until now, that is. Say hi to one of the most invasive and anticipated refactoring/set of bugfixes of the year: Brandon’s new templates/project settings/rendering system (which he blogged about recently [1] [2]…
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Importing from YouTube
We had implemented a working (only needed some UI polish) Youtube importer for PiTiVi: …but Youtube asked us to “bring [our] application into compliance with the ToS“, which roughly translates to “take it down”, because their API Terms of Service clearly forbids any kind of downloading. This situation, of course, annoys me deeply on a philosophical…
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Detachable previewer
I know, I know, it’s the third time I’m posting in three days, but a surprise feature was just merged out of the blue and I’m quite excited about it: you can now undock the previewer widget in PiTiVi (even while it is playing). It allows you to do something like this: Obligatory demonstration video…