[gst-devel] What projects are underway?

[Dan Dennedy]

I very much agree with what everything you wrote and with your whole 
approach to leverage Adam's work on QT4L. I am very excited to see 
someone working on this!

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yann at 3ivx.com wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In fact we already use the Quicktime4Linux library: we developed some month ago a plugin system for that library to be able to encode into and decode 3ivx streams using Broadcast2000 and Xmovie. This is workable and will be release soon fully opensource with an independant 3ivx binary plugin (btw we also add some nice features like support for compressed headers, mp3 embedded into quicktime encoding/decoding plugin, portable code ...)
> 
> But we think that codecs should not be embedded direcly within the library like this is the case for the moment with QT4L, that's why we're working on a simple QT parser and QT file writer for Gstreamer... 
> Of course, this two plugins are heavily based on QT4L, we "simply" remove all the codecs references and add the Gstreamer functions calls ;) ... As soon as we have a beta version working, we will let you know...
> 
> In my opinion, if you could develop a wrapper independant DV codec for Gstreamer, you should be able to use it to create directly avi or quicktime stream.
> In a more general way, we think that all the codecs available in QT4L should be ported into wrapper independant gstreamer plugins.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Yann.
> 
> On Wed, 18 April 2001, Dan Dennedy wrote:
> 
>> I just subscribed to this list, so this reply is not properly threaded....
>> 
>> First of all, I want to comment on the post from 3ivx.com. Please consider
>> using the Quicktime 4 Linux implementation from
>> http://www.heroinewarrior.com/quicktime.php3 for your quicktime parsers.
>> The reason is because this is already a fairly mature implementation. More
>> specific reasons will become clear below.
>> 
>> Now, on to my projects. I am a member of the Linux1394 team (aka Firewire)
>> and related projects Kino and Coriander all hosted at SourceForge. Kino is
>> a gnome, cuts-only DV editor that I have contributed substantially to in
>> the areas of tape transport control, display video output, DV export over
>> 1394, and related UI stuff. Currently, it stores DV encoded video captured
>> via 1394 in AVI (type1 and type2) files as a vids.dvsd stream plus audio.
>> FYI, Kino extensively uses libdv--the other project Omega Hacker has worked
>> on in conjunction with OTI.
>> 
>> Many users wish more stable DV/1394 capture from within Broadcast 2000 as
>> well as the other goodies that Kino has like tape transport control and DV
>> export over 1394. Stil other users simply want conversions between AVI and
>> Quicktime DV files. I have different goals than the direction for Broadcast
>> so I have not contributed to that project, but I would like
>> interoperability with it as well as the ability to encode the video as
>> various MPEG. Also, in Kino, we do not playback audio or allow direct
>> editing of it. However, we maintain the audio associated with each frame.
>> So, I did some research before reinventing the wheel and decided upon
>> gstreamer as the way to go forward a couple of months ago.
>> 
>> Coriander is a gnome app for working with uncompressed 1394 video cameras.
>> I just completed adding multi-threaded video-in-a-window (with Xv) and
>> still frame capture to it. I would like to also support these cameras for
>> video capture and editing. 
>> 
>> Therefore, my future projects inlude, in order:
>> 1. /dev/dcvideo1394, a video4linux(2)-compliant driver for uncompressed
>> cameras
>> 2. /dev/dv1394, a video4linux(2)-compliant driver for DV cameras
>> 3. libavc, a library for device control over 1394 (including tape
>> transport).
>> 4. AVI vids.dvsd codecs for gstreamer based upon dvgrab/Kino and libdv.
>> 5. Quicktime codecs for gstreamer based upon Quicktime For Linux from Adam
>> Williams (http://www.heroinewarrior.com/), which supports several
>> compressions including DV.
>> 6. Port Kino to gstreamer if a gstreamer editor does not already exist that
>> I like.
>> 7. Develop a cross-platform, open-source SMIL player based upon Gecko and
>> native platform multimedia architectures (gstreamer for Linux/BSD,
>> Quicktime for Mac, DirectShow for Windows).
>> 
>> My goal is to be done with 1, 2, & 3 by the end of Q3--I'm trying to be
>> practical, but I have quite a bit of experience with all the underlying
>> technologies. I would love it if someone beats me to numbers 4 and 5.
>> Obviously, #7 is like the Holy Grail, but my intention is that project #6
>> uses a subset of SMIL for a project file/EDL.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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