Category: Planet GNOME
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Pitivi 0.91 "Charming Defects"
And so it has come to this. A few days ago, we stealthily published the tarball of the first Pitivi video editor release based on the GES engine. Incredible but true! 0.91 is finally out! In case you were living under a rock for the past two years, this release is the result of a…
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Privacy does not exist — it never did
Warning: this is certainly a depressing post. The NSA/PRISM/big brother scandal of late didn’t surprise nor shock me. The discovery that “the NSA probably silently circumvents/broke all our crypto and hid backdoors everywhere” is not really a discovery to geeks who have given the whole system a bit of thought — spies are spying on us,…
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Fix it thrice
Some of you may be familiar with the good old “fix it twice” adage: fix the problem and then ensure it never happens again. Last year, when I made Pitivi’s automatic backup feature work, I requested someone to write extensive automated tests for it (with Dogtail), so that I could feel confident about this feature…
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Prague, Brno, London, GNOME + Pitivi
Guess where I am going? To the end of the world and back To that event “where nobody goes anymore”. I’m not entirely sure what’s in the air this year. I’m not talking about what’s been going on in the industry and the public perception of GNOME in various circles, that might not be the…
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DIY sound suppressor for the Unicomp / model M keyboard
When you spend the vast majority of your spare time working on open-source software like Pitivi, sometimes you feel like hacking on hardware made of dead trees for a change. Dead trees have very few bugs unless you let them sit on the ground for extended amounts of time. As I was quite unsatisfied with…
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The best of GNOME 3.8
I’m very happy with how GNOME 3.8 is running on my newly installed Fedora 19 machine: Finally, thanks to the new privacy settings, I don’t have to care about the trash anymore. Though that’s arguably a bit less noticeable now that hard drives are 2 terabytes – it’s very hard for me to fill that…
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2013 open source video editor user survey
What was initially planned as a one-question referendum for Pitivi users (how critical is it for us to have perfect xptv import on the upcoming release) became a full-fledged survey to give us a clearer picture of what users care the most about these days. If you’re a fan of Free Software and video editing,…
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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…