On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:51 +0200, dooteo wrote: Hi,
> In GStreamer POT file, there are message with 'preroll' word. In GStreamer terminology this describes the process of preparing a GStreamer pipeline for playback/recording. What happens is that audio/video data starts flowing through the pipeline until all elements have data (so that you could start actually playing/outputting the video/audio immediately). I believe this terminology is only used in strings in developer tools such as gst-launch. > In Spanish and French languages, they translate as 'prepare'. That makes sense, I think. > But looking in web sites > http://www.gearwire.com/qa-cubasesx-recording.html#Q08 > it looks that 'preroll' (and postroll) are special marks to select the > begin and end of a timeline, where is going to record a sound. This doesn't look directly related. > In other sites they explain (from video view) as: > http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?thread=6631 > "That's the definition of a preroll, it rolls before the movie." > > and I guest it could works for sound too... Unfortunatly i don't > understand 'it rolls before the movie' expression. It looks to me like they use preroll/postroll for some kind of intro/outro movie clips. Cheers -Tim _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n