From kde-devel Tue Aug 14 20:32:33 2001 From: Hetz Ben Hamo Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 20:32:33 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: KWinTV X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=99782138612067 Hi George, others... First - glad to see the mail server is back online ;) I was thinking about an idea while I read this email from george.. I have been playing with ffmpeg lately (as some of you who are in #kde know - thanks for helping) - and I think it would be a great idea to implement the ffmpeg into kwinTV (to record TV shows), noatun and other multimedia parts... Some words about ffmpeg: (http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net): ffmpeg is a program that allows you to capture audio and video in real-time, it works very fast even on pretty-low end machines, it's also a conversion program between multimedia formats, and it's got a broadcast server. The entire idea of ffmpeg is that all the codecs are more or less do the same stuff - and ffmpeg shows that. You don't need tons of DLL's or .so files for it - fact is - you don't need a single .so file. There are few advantages of ffmpeg - and I'll list them: 1. Very active development - I see lots of "familiar" faces from other projects like Xine, Mplayer, AviPlay and other projects are participating. 2. The current version (0.4.5 - should be out in a day or 2) - is pretty stable. 3. It supports lots of codecs natively: ac3,mp2,mpeg1video,h263,h263p,rv10 (real video), mjpeg,opendivx,msmpeg4,pcm,rawvideo - and thats just for encoding - it supports much more for file conversions. 4. No needs for any DLL's or WineLib. 5. Very small - currently the only file that you need is a 1 executable file which takes 1M. 6. Legal - it's under GPL and all the work was done using a "clean room" implementation. I think that since we're in the stage of major version development - it would be a good idea to integrate it.. Suggestions? comments? Thanks, -- Hetz Ben Hamo hetz@kde.org On Tuesday 14 August 2001 23:14, George Staikos wrote: > Hello Everyone! > > This is a note to inform you that I have received no feedback from the > KWinTV author and he doesn't seem to have done any work on it since > November, so I am starting to maintain it myself in KDE CVS. It's in > rather rough shape right now, but it does work and I have fixed many bugs > already. I have also applied a patch by Stefan Hellwig which makes the > channel scanner work and implements a brand new channel file format. > > Things are stable enough for me right now, but I can find ways to crash > it still, and some things just aren't being done in a nice way. Ideally it > could use a complete rewrite since it was originally based on KDE 1.x but I > just don't have time for that. So for now, I'm just going to plug away at > my TODO list which I have added to the app in CVS. You can find it under > kdenonbeta/kwintv. This is not in the main build because it doesn't use > the KDE build system yet. I'm not a pro at that, so it will take a while > to merge it. For now I will continue to make releases fairly frequently at > http://www.staikos.on.ca/~staikos/kwintv/. > > I would really appreciate any help that anyone could lend. I know that > many of you use this application and it would be nice to get it back in > shape. I'm considering dropping all KDE 1.x support from it now, and I'm > particularily interested in getting the build system switched over to the > KDE style. Number one on my TODO list though, is to fix the colour > depth/bpp code. Right now it will not work on my machine at a depth of 24. > Xawtv does so I am looking at how it manages. Number two on my TODO list > is to get image scaling in place instead of using video mode changes to > simulate fullscreen. Scaling looks _so_ much nicer on my machine anyways. > > So please, if you use this app and you know anything about KDE build > system, icons, docs, or coding.... please lend a hand. Even good bug > reports will be very useful. > > Thanks! >> Visit http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<