Re: [gnome-love] a Google Summer of Code application for Media / Multimedia operations

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Hi Roberto,

Le mardi 18 mars 2008, à 00:13 -0300, Roberto Fagá a écrit :
> Hello for everyone
> 
> I was writing an application to Summer of Code, and Gnome was selected
> again. Is here the right place to find anyone to tell me if my idea is
> eligible for Gnome? Or should I try usability/another list? Let me
> (try to) be small and objective about the idea.
> It is a media operator, or multimedia if you prefer (I've some
> contests about this), a program to let to user the capable of
> converting videos, audio and images across different formats, plus
> extract audio from videos, merge image and audio into a video and
> these kind of operations. I thought in a set of glade interfaces which
> user select easily the operation (here enters the usability) and
> commands run on background using already existing tools for
> conversion/operations, like MEncoder and Transcoder or even libraries
> like GStreamer. I'm thinking in do a command template to run these
> operations, guaranteeing portability and new operations could be
> easily added by the community (something like QDVDAuthor does). This
> applications could be integrated with Nautilus and others gnome
> tools/apps, bringing easy use to user on daily use (how many 'use's).

While this sounds interesting, it's likely that GNOME won't accept a
project like this because it's not something that will improves what
currently exists, and because this kind of program is not interesting
for too many people.

> Suggestions? Is this project nice to Gnome or should I try another
> organization (like GStreamer and limit the application to GStreamer
> only) ?

Yes, you can try asking GStreamer. FWIW, in all cases, I wouldn't use
mencoder or anything else except GStreamer for this kind of stuff.

Good luck,

Vincent

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