---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ronald S. Bultje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 00:49:08 +0100 Subject: Announcing first release of Cupid To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I'd hereby like to announce the first release of Cupid, a video/audio capture application based on GNOME and GStreamer. Cupid 0.0.1 can be downloaded through http://ronald.bitfreak.net/me/cupid.php Features: * support for alsa, oss for audio and v4l, v4l2, v4l/mjpeg for video. No other OS than Linux is supported for video-capture yet. * support for all encoders/muxers that GStreamer knows about, including Ogg/Theora and MPEG-4/AVI. * perfect lip-sync * nice overlay to see what you're capturing * volume and brightness controls I recommend using GStreamer CVS to get a good result, although the latest releases (0.8.3 of gst-ffmpeg, 0.8.7 of gst-plugins and 0.8.8 of gstreamer core) might work too. GNOME requirements are less exotic, it'll work with pretty much any recent GNOME installation. Known bugs: * v4l1 capture won't work with 0.8.7 - you need CVS (yes, that's pathetic...). v4l2 and v4l/mjpeg works fine, though, and since most modern cards have v4l2 drivers, it shouldn't be a huge problem. * webcams won't work. Don't try. Don't bother. Get a real TV-card. Hardware-codec cards *will* work, however. I regularly test with MJPEG-codec boards (Pinnacle DC10+). * quite some encoders and muxers might do nothing or dump core. Those need fixing. Try using the obvious ones for the best chance on luck. * there's something weird with the comboboxes, I don't know what really, but their selection is lost once in a while. Also, sometimes they don't refresh correctly. In those cases, closing and reopening the preferences dialog will fix it. * avi (or, rather, each muxing format) will only work once. You need to reset the elements in the preferences dialog, or restart the application. Those elements basically need fixing and I didn't get to that part yet. ;). * theora encoding is slooooooooooooooo.................w. * see the TODO list for more stuff. File bugs in GNOME bugzilla (product GStreamer - Gst-rec) and send patches and sugestions there too. At some point, I'll probably move it to its own CVS and give it its own bugzilla product, but hey, it's still young and needs maternal love. Enjoy, Ronald -- Ronald S. Bultje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ gnome-multimedia mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-multimedia -- All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible. Seven Pillars of Wisdom -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
