Re: GUI mockup

[Turbo <doblfinger gmx net>]

Sorry to bother but where can I download the mockup?

Am Donnerstag, den 17.07.2008, 03:30 +0000 schrieb
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>    1. A mockup for an alternate conduit GUI. (Andrew Stormont)
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> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:12:41 +0300
> From: Andrew Stormont <andyjstormont googlemail com>
> Subject: A mockup for an alternate conduit GUI.
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> Pls, tell me what you think.
> 
> You'll probably have to view it in inkscape, since I have no idea how to
> add an opaque background :p
> 
> Andy Stormont.
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> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:30:45 +1200
> From: "John Stowers" <john stowers gmail com>
> Subject: Re: Conduit & iPod Module - Week 7
> To: Alexandre <airmind gmail com>
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> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Alexandre <airmind gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've finally fixed my Bazaar branch and included my latest code:
> > https://code.launchpad.net/~airmind/conduit/gsoc08
> 
> Thats great to see. Have you merged in trunk lately? It will make it
> easier for me to merge your work later on if you remain close to
> upstream.
> 
> > If anyone has an iPod you could try it out (just remember it will accept any
> > file, even non-supported media). You can even copy files back from the iPod
> > to your computer. You need the libgpod python bindings (0.6 or better).
> >
> > I started to implement the video conversion using gst.parse_launch, so I
> > could get a pipeline easily, but I reached a problem when I tried to
> > implement video scaling. The problem is that I need to scale down the video
> > size if it is too big (for instance, the iPod only supports 320x240 videos),
> > but for this I need to know the video dimensions. So I could run the
> > pipeline over it once to get the video dimensions, and then run it again for
> > the real conversion, but that would mean too much overhead. So, I got into
> > Gstreamer internals to find a way to dynamically set the output video size,
> > but it is being harder then I thought. I need to set the pipeline to run, so
> > I get the video dimensions, but that sets the output size. Somehow I need to
> > put the needed dimensions in between that.
> > Also, because I needed all this stuff, I re-implemented some code using a
> > pipeline directly, which gives me more control (and more complexity). I
> > think I'll still use parse_launch for modules to pass their encoders, so
> > they can pass a full pipeline if they need to, and it wil be added to the
> > pipeline just as another element. But for this to work I have to figure out
> > the GhostPad completely (I think I got it now, but it still very confusing).
> 
> Yeah. If you look at how I was doing conversions, using ffmpeg, I had
> to parse the video twice, the first time to determine the dimensions,
> etc.
> 
> If its easier for you to run a simple small pipeline to first
> determine video size then I support that idea. Im a big supporter of
> getting it working in the first iteration, and making it better later
> on. One benefit of the first pass to determine the size is that it
> would also act as a test to check if the video file is readable, and
> gstreamer has the correct codecs, etc.
> 
> >
> > And I've been thinking about the last part of my project, a easy-to-use
> > interface to all these features, similar to the iTunes experience. The
> > problem is that I don't know how it fits with Conduit. This interface don't
> > fit with the Conduit drag-and-drop model, and I don't know if a program just
> > to configure Conduit is needed (after all, you could just open Conduit and
> > drag-and-drop the required modules). It would be great if Conduit could fit
> > this kind of interaction inside itself, but I really don't know how. So, my
> > goal is to create something that could be used by media-players, like
> > Rhythmbox. It would replace the current iPod plugin with an interface very
> > similar to the iTunes, allowing the user to choose to manually manage the
> > iPod, or to automatically sync playlists, notes, etc.
> > I still need to research the Conduit DBus interface, to see if everything I
> > need is supported.
> 
> Let me know if there is anything else you need from the DBUS interface
> and I will add it.
> 
> It should definately be possible to do a much simpler GUI using
> Conduit over DBUS alone. This topic was discussed quite a lot at
> GUADEC, and I completely support this approach.
> 
> There are quite a few examples on how to use the DBus interface in the
> tools/scripts directory IIRC
> 
> Good work,
> 
> John
> 
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