Hi,

The Messages log only seems to give limited information, is anything
like a debug log available? - i.e. is there any way to see what's
going on under the hood?

I'm really enjoying working with LiVES, not least because I was able
to solve a transcoding problem I was seriously stuck on with
command-line tools.

But...the particular transcoding process takes several minutes to go
through, and repeating the same procedure through LiVES every time I
make a change to my source data is getting a bit tedious. So ideally
I'd like to put together a little shell script to automate, leave
using LiVES for the more interesting bits. But I can't really tell
what's going on. I'm guessing LiVES makes direct calls on the relevant
libs for processing, but as the setup seems to be quite
pluggable/declarative, I'm rather hoping these calls would be logged
somewhere.

What I'm doing is sync'ing a LibreOffice presentation with some music
(I did find other tools/methods of doing this, but this is the only
way I found that allowed rapid slide transitions, in time with the
beats). I'm running on Ubuntu 11.10.
The full process is:

# *** Preprocessing
# export from LibreOffice as HTML (OpenOffice Impress) - this produces
a directory full of screenshot .png files, with a bit of HTML to glue
them together
# resize.sh - a little script I have for resizing the images from
800x600 to 640x480
# rm html/*.html - little bit of cleanup
# python rename.py - another little script, the naming of the images
isn't properly in sequence, this fixes it
# glue the images into a video
# mencoder "mf://html/*.png" -ovc x264 -mf  fps=1.16666667  -o output.avi

*** Now -  LiVES ****
open output.avi
resample to 25fps
load audio (final.mp3)
Encode & save - multi_encoder, High Quality AVI (XVID/MP3), mp3

I assume I should be able to also wrap the bits from mencoder onwards
into a script - but how?

kutgw,
Danny.
-- 
http://dannyayers.com

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