Hi! transcode suffers from an historical lack of development resources, the far most important missing being the developer time. We have lots of ideas, plans and a nice roadmap (just to throw in some buzzwords: better synchronization, better ogg support, mkv support, dirac, flac, streaming support, more filters, an official GUI, new socket interace, and more): transcode is NOT dying, far from it: it has just a very, very slow growth.
So, anyone interested to jump in? Step out! Let me clear the field from some misconceptions: - You DO NOT have necessarely to know multimedia! Yes, this is right! Even if transcode is definitively a multimedia project, there are a lot of plain software engineering/coding tasks that does NOT require specific or just requires trivial multimedia knowledge; Just for the record, I actually use a significant part of my development time doing such tasks. - There are NOT only big, difficult tasks! There are a fair number of medium-to-little projects or tasks await completion! Every little bit helps! - You DO NOT have necessarely to write C code! Yes, this is right! We're in need of some things that are best accomplished (IMHO) in Python or Perl! - You DO NOT have necessarely to write any code! Yes! This is right as well! Documentation/tutorials describing transcode are way too often out-of-date or just missing! Help us to improve this situation. See you in transcode-devel! :) Bests, -- Francesco Romani // Ikitt [ Out of memory. ~ We wish to hold the whole sky, ~ But we never will. ]
