On Di, 2008-01-15 at 09:54 +0200, SqUe Squarious wrote: > Hi! > > I would like to express my opinion about Cheese. > First of all I am using version 0.2.3 coming with ubuntu gutsy, so > some of this things may have changed in newer version so forgive me in > advance. for sure! i always like getting opinions of users about cheese. we can improve cheese that way much easier. > > What I don't like: > * Speed! The program is awfully cpu hungry. My cpu comes to 50% when > running cheese (core 2 duo 2Ghz). Really too much cpu usage for > something > that others do it for me with 1-5% cpu usage like effectv in real > time. this is fixed, due to jaaps great work. the cpu load on my core 2 duo reaches between 10 and 20%. i dont know if i could get any lower, as gstreamer is doing its work on the cpu. anyway, we will head for opengl with gnome 2.24 > * That effects are not configurable, some of them could afford > parametrization, but didn't find something like that. we use the gstreamer effects for now, which dont have much configuration options. but: dont you think it could get too complicated if you can set every option of every effect? > * You can't select the order of effects (or this can be done in some > way that I haven't discovered?) yeah, its done automatically. when i wrote that, i wanted to let the user choose the order. but then i discovered, that it doesnt make much sense having either the green filter or the red filter first. so the order you see now is the order it gets rendered. applying the color filter to shagadelic wouldnt make much sense, so the color filter is applyied before and so on... > * I would like to have file saved in my desired location, quite > annoying... but on the other hand, it is nice to have them all > together independent from other pictures/photos. So I think it should > be configurable. you _can_ save the file anywhere you want using the right mouse button on a photo/video > > What I do like: > * I really ADORE the UI of the program. Simple, minimal and gnomish > till the bone. Good job here. thanks ;) if you want to help us to improve the ui, please watch this bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=509179 > * The ability to add many effects in the same time. cute! ;) isnt it? ;) > * The whole idea of consistent application of this kind with high > quality of implementation (speed is a regression though) we try to do our best, but gnome itself is like that ;) > > What I would love to see: > * Video pipelines. What I mean is use cheese as a real time video > effect processor and redirect output to other video programs like > skype/(a)msn bla bla. i dont think, that we should do that. i mean, we rely on gstreamer, and if others want to use those effects, they should use gstreamer too? > I used to archive this by installing videoloopback and using effectv > to output the result at the input channel of videoloopback, and at the > other end (video input programs) could > open the videolooback output device for input rather than the camera > directly. It worked just fine with most programs but videoloopback is > external and not well supported. > What I recently found is http://code.google.com/p/gstfakevideo/source > which from what I have understand creates a video device from a > gstream source (like a video file), maybe I am wrong, but if I am not > this could be less painfull. > > I hope to helped you with my feedback from the point of an humble > user, keep up work plz! :) you did!!! daniel > _______________________________________________ > Cheese-list mailing list > Cheese-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/cheese-list -- this mail was sent using 100% recycled electrons ================================================ daniel g. siegel <dgsiegel gmail com> http://home.cs.tum.edu/~siegel gnupg key id: 0x6EEC9E62 fingerprint: DE5B 1F64 9034 1FB6 E120 DE10 268D AFD5 6EEC 9E62 encrypted email preferred
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