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On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 09:28:00AM +0000, Daniel James wrote:

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> Hi Jaromil,

>

> >having read  the code  so far, having  tested the  applications and

> >analised the architectures involved, i believe KdenLive will by far

> >be the  best video editor around.  i really hope it  will have jack

> >support.

>

> Do you know  if the Kdenlive team are interested in  JACK at all? Do

> you need to be running KDE to get the most out of it?

no need, there is a --without-kde option at configure time, works like

a charm simply with kdelibs, I  have tested in dyne:II where there are

other  kde  based  applications  also  stripped down  and  using  only

kdelibs.
> A  key factor  for getting  mainstream  distro support  for a  video

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> editor is the software patents  on codecs issue. What I've suggested

> to Richard, the developer of OME,  is that the editor is packaged in

> such a  way that  it can  only import/export raw  DV and  Ogg Theora

> files.

>

> If the user wants to work with MPEG video, then they have to locate and

> download extra libraries, the presence of which is detected at runtime.

> That way, I reckon the mainstream distros will be a lot happier about

> shipping the app, and it can start to get a decent sized userbase.

this is a great approach! yes.
BTW  do we have any plans  to back-up  the PlayOgg  campaign by  FSF?
i guess we should really do
http://www.fsf.org/resources/formats/playogg
ciao
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