yeah, add-in means plugin or extension. starting with 0.4.0, one can write custom add-ins, and compressing using mencoder should be easy to write.
regards s On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 10:17 +0200, Emanuele Olivetti wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
