Re: GSoC: Gnome Video Converter

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Chihau Chau schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> My name is Chihau Chau and I am a student of Computer Sciences in UCV
> (Catholic University of Valparaíso, in Chile). I have been using Linux
> and Gnome for 9 years now, and have participated in the Chilean
> community of Gnome users. Currently, I am a member of the Gnome
> Spanish Translation Team (now translating the goffice module) but I
> want to take further steps in the field, like becoming a developer of
> the Gnome project in the GSoC 2009 and continue contributing in the
> future.
> 
> My Idea is to develop a video converter for Gnome with features such as:
> 
> -Simple, Fast and Intuitive.
> -Converting videos between different formats, bitrates and sizes.
> -Ripping DVDs to videos.
> -Downloading and converting videos from the web (youtube, google video, etc.).
> -Converting videos for use on portable devices like the iPod, Zune,
> PSP, and mobile phones.
> -Supporting many formats such as MPEG, AVI, MP4, FLV, SWF, 3GP, etc.
> 
> My plan is to use GTK and C or Python, and possibly ffmpeg.
> 
> 
> Any comments or advice on your part is welcomed, as I would like to
> have your feedback
> on the idea.

Hi last year we had this GSoc project for GStreamer
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/wiki/MediaServices
One of the gstreamer people started a new attempt recently
http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2009/03/23/learning-to-code/

Would be good to join efforts here.

Stefan

> 
> Thanks!
>