On 04/20/13 01:17, Wolfgang Baron wrote:
>>> I started porting dvbcut from Qt3 to Qt4 on 2013-03-29, based on the >>> most current svn sources late at night in my free time using mercurial >>> for storing the history. My first aim was to port dvbcut to Qt4 and add >>> multiple source videos. >> Nice to hear that some people still have free time. Not so nice to hear >> that you're wasting it. Well, in my opinion, anyway. > Please explain. Of the zillion programs I used for editing DVB > recordings, DVBCut is by far the most productive, because I do not have > to demultiplex and remultiplex the material, editing is extremely fast > and producing the output is a breze. Sure. I use dvbcut myself, you know. ;) But I'm also aware of the program's limitations. H.264 support, for example, requires that you rewrite virtually everything. The same goes for any other video format. So there is no HDTV, and probably never will be. > Why should I not give something > back, now that the functionality has become limited (Settings are not > saved (because Qt4 with q3compat does not do the job), the file dialogs > are stone aged and Qt3 and the versions of the used libraries will not > be here for much longer)? If there is some even better project I could > invest my time into, please tell me. I'm working on something, but I'm afraid my free time is more limited than yours. Gotta pay the bloody bills... [...] >>> The autoconf stuff and directories containing library code are not used. >>> I have >>> not yet created a new KDevelop4 project, because I do not have any >>> experience >>> with KDevelop. If anyone needs this, I will of course look into it. I would >>> also look into new autoconf support, if anyone can give a good reason for >>> doing so. >> Unlike others, an autoconf-based build environment will work on any >> system that has `make' and a decent shell. Is that reason good enough? > No. If you can compile a Qt program, you have qmake. The system > dependencies are handled by the Qt libraries. What does autoconf leave > me with except a bunch of overcomplicated #ifdefs? More freedom, and the option to check for system characteristics Qt doesn't really care about, for example. But let's not waste our precious time with that discussion. >>> I sent a mail to Sven Over some time ago, but he has not answered yet. >>> If you like to see, what I have done in the dvbcut project, can please >>> anybody reply to my and tell me how to proceed? >> Maybe the best course of action would be to take over maintenance of the >> package, if you're really willing and able to spend so much time on it. >> Unfortunately, I can't give you write access to the repository, since >> I'm not its owner. Only Sven can do that, and he's abandoned the project >> years ago. > I would be willing to do that. However, I have no experience with > Sourceforge administration etc. So if you are willing to boot me into > that business just a little bit, I would make this a useful and modern > project again. I'm not really a subversion expert either. I can check out, create a diff, check in, and that's about it. I'm using CVS a lot, but that's different. As far as sourceforge is concerned, I'm probably the last one you should ask for help. I don't use it for anything else. [second mail] > Oh yes, I forgot to ask. @Michael Riepe: Have you produced any code, > that might be integrated already? Nope. I've written about 800 KByte (~32000 lines) of code, but that's a separate project, not based on the dvbcut code. It will eventually serve the same purpose, but it does things in quite a different way, starting with the fact that the audio/video handling is completely independent from the GUI. In fact, there is no GUI at the moment. And before I start writing one, there are more important things to do, like getting the cutting logic right for video formats other than MPEG-2. -- Michael "Tired" Riepe <mich...@mr511.de> X-Tired: Each morning I get up I die a little ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ DVBCUT-devel mailing list DVBCUT-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dvbcut-devel
