The Open Sourcerer

Category: Planet GNOME

  • Improving project loading performance

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    When you load a project in PiTiVi, importing the clips into the “media library” (also known internally as the “source list”) is pretty fast, but inserting them in the timeline is painfully slow. So I whipped out my torture test project and spent some time profiling what’s going on using Python’s cProfile module (I talked…

  • Startup Assistant

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    Part of the PiTiVi Love list, Mathieu Duponchelle has implemented a “welcome screen” (also known as “Startup Wizard”). It is a great little feature which uses GTK Recent to automatically show the last few projects you were working on, so you can open them with two clicks (or by pressing Enter): You wouldn’t believe how often…

  • Snowy hackfest & Boston Summit

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    I had a great time at the Snowy hackfest (and the Boston Summit). Thanks to the subsidy from the GNOME Foundation, I’ve been able to meet tons of brilliant people and help free/open source software while meeting the constraints of my student schedule—and budget! In order to get you all pumped up and excited before…

  • Adopt a Specto

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    As you can see I haven’t touched Specto in quite a while. I’m not going to start fixing things or implementing new features myself anytime soon. This is because: I consider Specto “good enough” and I lack the time/hacking skills to devote to it I spend lots of energy on other projects such as PiTiVi.…

  • Snowy hackfest and Boston Summit 2010

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    Fellow hackers and designers, I will be in Boston from November 4th to 8th. I have been summoned there to participate, as a designer/tester/usability freak, in the glorious rise of a better user interface for Snowy, the open-source online synchronization and collaborative editing project for Tomboy. Thanks to sponsorship from the GNOME Foundation, I will…

  • Introducing: Recipe Manager

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    Three years ago, Daniel Taylor (of Arista fame) made a small application designed to store and manage your favourite recipes. It was simple, lightweight, elegant. He called it Recipe Manager (got a better, unique name, anyone?) and released a “technology preview” along with the file format spec onto this website. I was pretty excited and…

  • PiTiVi 0.13.5 released

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    PiTiVi 0.13.5 has been (almost silently) released to the masses. While it doesn’t bring a ton of flashing new features, this release was deemed necessary to address some of the bigger 0.13.4 issues before the final Ubuntu Maverick development freeze. Among other things, it fixes still images (ex: PNG, JPEG, etc.). If you still encounter…

  • Free my memory

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    My fellow Antistress argued that I should be going back from Chromium to Firefox today. I replied, “Only when it starts up in less than 3 seconds and frees my goddamn memory when closing tabs”. He then replied with the following statement: firefox a la meilleure gestion de la mémoire tous navigateurs confondus (cf tests unanimes sur…

  • Windows Media and PiTiVi

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    WMV files did not import and seek properly in PiTiVi… until now. Edward has committed a fix in the GStreamer “ugly” plugins today and, as such, PiTiVi directly benefits from this. Not that anyone uses this dead/crappy format anyway, but it’s always nice to be able to back up the “anything in, anything out” claim 😉…

  • Planets in orbit

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    In case there actually are people subscribed to the PiTiVi planet (i.e. who know that it actually exists!), the new URL is http://www.pitivi.org/planet (until further notice… maybe one day it will become planet.pitivi.org, but I’m le tired). This should make it more reliable than my self-hosted server on a residential DSL connection, and the URL…