Hi Alexandre, Could you send me a current diff of your work just so that I can see what you're up to? Overall, the work sounds great!
Thanks and take care, Lucas On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Alexandre Rosenfeld <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Sorry for the late report. > > This week I got a bit stuck in the problems I had trying to get Clutter to > export a video (the problem was that clutter_stage_read_pixels is not > working and crashing the application). I tried looking into the Clutter code > to find a solution and I found where the error is being raised, but I don't > know enough about Clutter to know why it happens and what should I do > differently to avoid it. Sending an email to the Clutter mailing list didnt > help so far. > My experiments with timelines and animations seems to tell me it will be > possible to export a Clutter stage to a GStreamer pipeline just by advancing > the timelines in Clutter and exporting the stage. This means that using > Clutter for the animations would make everything easier, which makes these > errors I'm getting exporting the Clutter stage even more annoying. One > option I'm thinking is to add the code for exporting the video, together > with the interface, but don't enable it by default until it actually works > (and I hope it will work soon). > > *General report* > * > * > We just got to the mid-term evaluations, so this is a report of my work so > far. You can check my project wiki for more information: > http://live.gnome.org/AlexandreRosenfeld_Shotwell_Slideshow > > I started out implementing a Clutter based slideshow, which meant > integrating Clutter into Shotwell and creating the slideshow controls using > Clutter. This already allows some cool transition effects without too much > trouble (Clutter handle a lot of the details of the animations). That > doesn't mean I've finished my first item in the features list, because even > if basic effects are easily done, I want to experiment with more advanced > transitions. However, this dependes on the Export Slideshow as Videos > features, since the transitions must also be exported. Right now, which I > indicate above, I'm having troubles with the Export feature. > The Background Music feature was completed, aside from a few minor features > still missing. I really like the end result, which integrates with Banshee > to select a playlist while showing your pictures and is flexible enough to > be easily extended to support other sources of music in the future. > > I would say the project is about half-completed, since one of the three big > features is complete and the other two are about half-completed, so it > brings the poject to be more or less on schedule. > * > * > *Alexandre Rosenfeld* > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
