Conduit & iPod Module - Last Report

[Alexandre <airmind gmail com>]

Hi all,

For this last week I've done some last minute work and some polishments:

• Changed SimpleConfigurator to accept value kinds instead of widgets, including making a "list" kind, which shows a combo box which the user can select from. This improves the iPod configuration code a lot, removing unnecessary code and logic.
• While I was hacking the SimpleConfigurator I made it to use tables and increase a little the border, now it looks better and is more HIG compliant.
• I added a choice between Movie, MusicVideo and TvShow in the iPod configuration.
• Merged two-pass encoding to the video converter, back from my initial code. It's not well tested, but it looks good. It's optimized enough not to encode audio or write to the output file in the first pass, and it can include per-encoder optimizations, because it can create encoders based on the current pass. All of this without being much complex. I'm glad I waited until all was working to include it.

I think overall, the iPod media support in Conduit is in a good first release state. There are a few remaining issues, and some optimizations to be made, but it is usable.

Now that GSoC is over I want to thank John Carr and John Stowers, for their help and for their great program. It has been a great experience.

Thank you all for this great opportunity.

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Alexandre Rosenfeld

EngComp 06 - USP São Carlos