On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:17:19 +0200, Ed Vaessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I tried to compile the cinelerra4 source, since ist seems to offer the > feature that text in the title effect can be adorned with an outline. > The compilation stopped with an error: ...compiling woes snipped... > Then I stopped an started to ask myself questions. > > Question 1: who are these children that are set loose on the internet to > take the guise of a programmer and just program around in their private > Kindergarten, without any communication to the outside world? Hobbyists, amateurs or too busy professionals receiving little help. MPEG4 being so patent-laden that the major distros won't touch with a ten foot pole doesn't exactly help, either. "Contrabande" code is macho, something proper Quality Assurance is not... In a perverse sense, the secret handshakes (misplaced semicolons, if you will) keep the IP lawyers away. If the software became good, stable, easy and POPULAR, that might change. It's easy to underestimate how toxic that situation really is. > Question 2: does anyone ever ask himself why cinelerra crashes so very often? Quite a few, actually. http://bugs.cinelerra.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340#c9 https://init.linpro.no/pipermail/skolelinux.no/cinelerra/2006-October/008225.html The thread locking needs refactoring. > Question 3: how has cinelerra ever managed to become a professional NLE? Did it ever? I guess that depends on whom you ask. Here is one rather lengthy opinion: http://pipapo.org/pipawiki/Cinelerra/Developers/ichthyo/Cinelerra_woes He went on to start the Lumiera effort, along with Christian Thäter. -- Herman Robak _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
