Lorenzo Milesi wrote: > Emanuele Olivetti ha scritto: >> Would it be interesting to embed such a function in >> future f-spot releases? A basic implementation could be just >> calling an external program, provided the desired level >> of compression. >> > Ciao > I am not a developer, but from what has been told before I guess this > won't be implemented into the main code. Many times Stephane said that > video support in F-Spot will be VERY basic, limited to importing and > tagging. > > There are more chances that it can be handled by an addin, that will > call external programs like you said. I believe there won't be problems > for this!
Ciao, You're right about what Stephane said and I agree with him. But at least in my case (Canon Ixus 65) it is a nonsense to store videos in their original format (after a quick check I can confirm: 1Gb for less than 9 minutes at high quality). So to have them in f-spot I must compress. Since I do believe that many other cameras have the same feature it seems quite mandatory to think about compression in case f-spot will handle small cameras' hi-quality videos. What do you mean exactly by 'f-spot addin'? Is there a way to manage external program invocation from f-spot now? Here is a one-liner I use (mplayer/mencoder+lame), for those of you interested in that: ---compress.sh--- mencoder -channels 1 -srate 11025 -oac mp3lame -lameopts mode=3:abr:br=16 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=$1:vpass=1 -ffourcc DX50 -o $2.$1 $2 ----------------- The first argument is the video bit rate (usually 1000-5000 for me, but depends on your settings) and the second is the filename. So "./compress.sh 3000 MVI_2193.AVI" yields "MVI_2193.AVI.3000" (divx4) at ~1/6 of the original size. I'm not an expert in encoding so feel free to criticize/improve :) Cheers, Emanuele _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
