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Hi my name is Axel Jerabek, This mail is sent out to all mpeg/divx/videosoftware developers that we found on freshmeat.net or sourceforge.net for the linux community as we are looking for coders for our project. Let me tell you why: I am the chief developer of the digital movies department at gap films munich. We are a commercial film production since almost 10 years now in the international film business. Im sorry to say that most of our customers and clients dont really know that there are movie formats on computers that are far superiour to some of our old tape formats. Every commercial production is cutting together showreels for their self-advertising purposes. We are sending those U-Matic tapes out to our customers to show the latest films and features of our directors. These tapes are meant as "moods" (kind of suggestions) for the next commercial all the film productions are applying for. Searching our huge archives, putting 10-15 commercials on a single tape, sending these tapes overnight to a client or commercial agency is such a huge effort that we developed some SQL databases and storage archive for our chosen DVD file format. This database will be made public over the internet and accessible by any browser. We are working on a part of this database to transcode dvd files which we encode ourselves for our customers to the mpeg-2/ac3 format. We use Mpeg-2 files to outp�lay those on the old tape format if needed or burn DVDs in the server which still can be sent by mail to our clients. We transcode those DVD files into Mpeg-1 , Realvideo and DivX in order to reduce file size and make it easier for our clients to download these files over the internet. Right now we are implementing the Real Producer on a Windows machine (the linux version cant read Mpeg2 or Mpeg1). For that Realvideo purpose we write a client/server situation in c++ for the linux and the windows machine. So the linux database machine can swap the needed files to the windows box over smb and the windows box starts to convert the Mpeg1/Mpeg2 file into Realvideo and puts it into a shared folder. This movie database will be free for use for the creative people and artists. Which means that we will give newcomers and new directors a way to provide their creative work and share it with agencies and clients all over the world. We think that this will bring a new choice to the commercial market and refreshes this competition a bit. Although this system will be sold to other film productions and clients and agencies all over the world to cover our own costs of development. It will work as a distributed network worldwide to ensure easy search of creative movies/songs/pictures. The commercial market is not the only target for this system, we just start here since Things are a bit easier to work on, the files are mostly 30 sec commercials which isnt that big of a deal to work with. we also plan to develop DSP transcoder boards for PCI slots which will transcode bigger files just faster than a regular pentium 3, athlon or a dual machine. We mostly work with GPL software, where the lincense for commercial use is directly projected to our customers and clients when they get the database system. For the part with Divx and other decoders/encoders/transcoders we are looking for a solution that we can integrate into our own software or we also use GPLed software and leave it as is just copy that software on our cds with mentioning the programmers and all the needed stuff. Right now there are many ways to transcode files and use multiple decoders/encoders/transcoders. In order to have a really good bundeled software we are looking now for people that are interested in working with us and offering this whole project as a stable platform to this huge variety of customers. There are many ways now to find a spot where we all meet and put this project to the first good and stable beta release. If you as a programmer with video/audio-software or database/internet knowledge are interested in working on this project, you are welcome to contact me by email to give your software parts a home in a project that we develop since over 2 years now (archiving/searching/transcoding). If we find a way to work together we will create a developers team around this project and we will supply you with an access to the database and the project files. If you have any questions feel free to email me or call me. Looking forward to hear from you, Axel Jerabek, Tel: 0049 89 650 779 Mobile: 0049 172 841 999 3 gap films commercial productions GmbH, munich germany. web (in reconstruction): <http://www.gapfilms.de>email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |
