2014-10-05 13:54 GMT+03:00 Gunnar Hjalmarsson <[email protected]>: > I filed https://launchpad.net/bugs/1377592 where I propose that Pitivi > is replaced with OpenShot in the Ubuntu slideshow in the 14.10 installer.
I'm not seeing where it's implied upstream would be dropping pitivi or would not be maintaining it? The last comment on the upstream bug was "We are now using glimagesink. Closing the bug.", ie they have switched from using the problematic sink to another one. The upstream has around 80 commits in the recent weeks, so it does not look non-maintained: https://github.com/GNOME/pitivi/commits/master The crash fix for 14.04 would be worth SRU:ing. I remember testing pitivi during 14.04 cycle, the new version, and it worked and I edited some videos with it. Maybe something changed in the dependencies before the final release causing the crash to surface? I'm not saying Pitivi is in great shape in Ubuntu, it's not, but I just don't think there's a simple answer to a well maintained, bug free, new user friendly (not overly complex) free software video editor. For Openshot, it's two years since the last Openshot release, and that used to crash for me too. The current Openshot development version was successfully crowd-funded 1.5 years ago in early 2013, but so far it has no public source code repository, which is problematic for a supposedly still free software project, or at least makes it early to consider recommending Openshot. If the 2.0 gets released as free software and is easy to use and especially stable, then it's worth considering. There's one more potential issue after that - Pitivi uses GStreamer which is already installed on Ubuntu, while Openshot uses libav/ffmpeg via MLT. That technology choice might keep Pitivi preferred together with it being developed in the open, but pitivi would obviously need packaging/patching maintenance to have a functional version in each Ubuntu. -Timo -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
