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Two Steps Forward for Linux Multimedia
chill writes: "A while ago Heroine Virtual had a video editing program out called Broadcast 2000. Then something weird happened and the program was pulled from release with the homepage saying it was too dangerous legally to put out. Something about liability. Anyway, the successor to that program, called Cinelerra, is now available in beta form. Give it a shot and see what is what." And Dominic Mazzoni writes: "Talk about a tough act to follow. On the same day that Mozilla 1.0 was released last week, we released version 1.0.0 of Audacity, our GPL cross-platform audio editor that has been under development for nearly three years. It is based on wxWindows and runs natively on Linux (of course!), Windows, Mac OS (both 9 and X), and some other POSIX systems. Version 1.0.0 just adds a couple of minor features and bug fixes, but it is basically stable and quite useful, though it has some limitations. In addition, we also released a snapshot of our unstable development branch as Audacity 1.1.0. This version adds support for 24-bit and 32-bit samples, automatic resampling, LADSPA plug-ins, and internationalization, plus it has many nifty new UI enhancements."
rpm -Uvh worked for me.
What widget toolkit does it use? And why does it link with libGL?
Napster-to-go says "Fill and refill your compatible MP3 player", which is a lie. It's not MP3. It's WMA with DRM.
I have been using MainActor for some time now for Non linear video editing under linux. Yes It's unstable, but it does work. I had high hopes for Broadcast2000 but their abandoning it was and still is very fishy smelling. Cinderella feels very much like Bcast2000, but is still not as stable as mainActor.
Yes, MainActor is not free... but I dont see anywhere that cinderella is going to be free. Linux is horribly lacking in decent - easy to use NLE video editors... Everyone it trying to reproduce what Adobe Premiere is offering or the AVID suite, and that is horribly overkill for 90% of the users. what needs to be designed is one of those simple suites that comes with a firewire card.. allows you to do splicing, title insertion and a few transitions.. (anything but a cut or dissolve is useless... No I dont want to watch your video with 900 different transitions. It makes people puke!)
How about a simple NLE editor? or a stripped down version of Mpegtools that doesn't require 60 different libraries and packages? (this is a great example of what makes statically linked binaries a really good thing.)
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From the news page on the sourceforge site linked to from the Heroinewarrior.com main page:
"Posted By: heroines
Date: 2002-03-27 14:59
Summary:Switch to windows
There's been ever increasing pressure to drop Linux and move everything to Windows. #1 developing desktop applications for what industry increasingly pushes as an embedded operating system is a bad career move. #2 for $60 you can run win32 programs on Windows or Linux natively. The $300 for VMWare didn't fly with users. The $200 for a full Windows license was still too expensive. The $0 for wine wasn't worth the crashes.
By setting the $60 price point, Codeweavers is finally making windows a better development model than Unix more than any technical decision could have"
?! you tell me.
For working on audio samples, Audacity is GREAT. I had some old records that are not available on CD that I wished to preserve. The problem is that I've had these since the early 1970's and they are scratched and worn. I sampled them in, fired up Audacity, and used Audacity's noise filter. One of these days I'm going to look over the code for it - it must be some pretty tricky signal processing....
You mark a section of noise, and tell the filter "See that: that's noise. Kill!". The filter will then remove that noise from the signal. The first sample I had the noise went from a "Schoosshh Schooshh" ever rotation to a very faint, high frequency "twinkle". Since the record was speech, I was able to then brick-wall filter that off, and Voila! I had an MP3 that was a pleasure to listen to, rather than a nasty scratchy mess.
Audacity works. Well. Get it. Use it.
(now, if only I could us it to filter out all the crap on the radio... But then I don't listen to the radio....)
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Yes, Kino is user friendly:
"I don't like this scene": Type "dd".
"Go to next scene": Hit return, or arrow down key.
"Delete from here to end of scene, it's only getting worse": Type "d$".
Many users don't need more commands, and it is fast.
http://www.schirmacher.de/arne/kino/
I've been using Audacity since 0.97 to record and mix individual tracks from my analog 4-track recorder - it smokes! The only limitations I've hit are those provided by the lackluster driver for my soundcard (f**k creative labs!) - time to get me a Hammerfalle!
I heartily recommend this app to anybody who does any home recording. I've used in in Linux and OS9, I'm sure the win32 version is just fine.
JB
The heat from below can burn your eyes out
You can find the following on their Sourceforge development page:
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Posted By: heroines
Date: 2002-03-27 14:59
Summary:Switch to windows
There's been ever increasing pressure to drop Linux and move everything to Windows. #1 developing desktop applications for what industry increasingly pushes as an embedded operating system is a bad career move. #2 for $60 you can run win32 programs on Windows or Linux natively. The $300 for VMWare didn't fly with users. The $200 for a full Windows license was still too expensive. The $0 for wine wasn't worth the crashes.
By setting the $60 price point, Codeweavers is finally making windows a better development model than Unix more than any technical decision could have.
- end quote
That can be found at:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id
Another poster pointed out that the source tarball contains the libraries of some 10 other OS projects. These include things like lame and libogg. Their previous product bcast2000 used it's own (ugly) widget set as well. We're probably fortunate that this NLE works as well as it does and is polished as it is.
It's hard for me to fathom just where these guys are coming from. Their methodology seems to suggest that they are talented Windows developers who don't even remotely get how UNIX works. They spring this NLE on us almost fully grown and then abruptly pull it because of some shadowy "liability" concern. They then spring its successor on us and are threatening to take it to Windows. There is also an announcement of an upcoming beta on their page where they point out that "it is STILL a native Linux program and won'
t take advantage of "win32 features".
I won't be in the least optimistic about this project's long term Linux prospects until I see a credible UNIX focused fork. These guys are good and wrote some nice software in spite of themselves but as far as their UNIX support goes they're flighty.
Maybe this story ought to be in the Apple section as well, because the appearance of a decent audio editor for OSX is huge. I have been waiting for someone to develop something that's simple, cheap, and works. So far, I have been recording VO audio clips in iMovie and editing them with QuickTime; or recording music in ProToolsFree, which only runs in Classic and is way more complex than I need. Hooray for Audacity! I'm downloading it tonight.
Your fantasies contain the seeds of important concepts.
Only an apt-get URI now ;) and we're all extremely pleased. ...
I had a quick look at the sources in order to build them myselves, but
They are _again_ not using the GNU Autotools (which makes packaging a lot harder).
buggers
Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. You can't simply say, "Today I will be brilliant."
Let's see, I've got my video capture card working on v4l, I've got video capture to mjpeg (good balance of 'quality of original encoding' and 'file size taken up by original encoding') working through xawtv's(no, not a troll, that really is xawtv's URL) 'Streamer' utility, I've got framerate and format conversions of other file types working through mplayer's Mencoder, and I've got The MJPEG tools for generation of VCD and SVCD video from the original sources (the yuvdenoise filter is handy when transferring old VHS's to VCD), and when I want to get more complex with my conversions, I've got transcode (the '.ppml' format for subtitle rendering seems to support quite a lot of effects...) and now I've got Cinelerra (which I can never seem to spell properly the first time) for messing with the video itself, once I figure out how to use the program (which now runs on my Slackware box after seeing a previous poster's tip about finding the libgcc* libraries and such in OpenOffice - Thanks!).
Now if only I could get xawtv to recognize that I have libquicktime.so on my machine so that I could save my video to .mov's (so that I can get more than 2GB at a time) I'd be set...
Well, that and support for .ogg [XVid/VP3]/Vorbis video file encoding (MPlayer already supports playback at least, or so I'm told, and it sounds like support for this in ffmpeg may be coming Real Soon Now from what I've seen on the mailing list...)
So, there's quite a lot of work that seems to be going on with Linux multimedia (not even counting proprietary packages and audio-only tools) if you look long enough...
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