Jean-François Fortin Tam (nekohayo): Prague, Brno, London, GNOME + Pitivi
Guess where I am going?That moment when you think “jeez, I wish I could bring less equipment with me for once”…To the end of the world and backTo that event “where nobody goes anymore”. I’m not...
View ArticleLubosz Sarnecki: View Side-by-Side Stereoscopic Videos with GStreamer and...
GStreamer can do a lot. Most importantly it has the exact functionality I was looking for when I wanted to play a stereoscopic video on the Oculus Rift: Decoding a video stream and applying a GLSL...
View ArticleJean-François Fortin Tam (nekohayo): Fix it thrice
Some of you may be familiar with the good old “fix it twice” adage: fix the problem and then ensure it never happens again.Last year, when I made Pitivi’s automatic backup feature work, I requested...
View ArticleJean-François Fortin Tam (nekohayo): Pitivi 0.91 “Charming Defects”
And so it has come to this.A few days ago, we stealthily published the tarball of the first Pitivi video editor release based on the GES engine. Incredible but true! 0.91 is finally out! In case you...
View ArticleJean-François Fortin Tam (nekohayo): Pitivi 0.92 and the wandering opensourcerer
The past few weeks have been pretty crazy.At the last minute, I ended up going to the GStreamer Conference in Edinburgh, thanks to the GStreamer project sponsoring my attendance. As always, it was a...
View ArticleJean-François Fortin Tam (nekohayo): Wanted: documentation specialist
The Pitivi project is looking for someone who loves teaching/writing, to fill the position of “documentation specialist” among our team! The documentation specialist will be responsible for updating...
View ArticleJean-François Fortin Tam (nekohayo): Scratching some Media Library itches
Besides looking for a job, catching a cold and shovelling snow, this holiday season I spent some time scratching itches in Pitivi. For starters, thumbnails generation: if you’ve been using the new...
View ArticleMathieu Duponchelle: Announcing pitivi's fundraising campaign !
Our team I've been a part of the Pitivi story on and off since three years now, whenever I could find time really. I've loved every moment I've spent in the community, I've made friends, I've learnt...
View ArticleJean-François Fortin Tam (nekohayo): Presenting and hacking Pitivi at Pycon 2014
Pycon, or what I’d call the “main Pycon” (vs one of the sub-Pycons), has traditionally always been held in the United States of America. This year, it will be held in Montréal.The most astute among you...
View ArticleJean-François Fortin Tam (nekohayo): Applying for a GSoC project is all about...
This year, Pitivi‘s focus for GSoC projects will be a little bit different than in 2013. As you can see in our preliminary ideas page, there is much less GStreamer (or GES) work involved, as we tried...
View ArticlePitivi fundraiser news: Give some love to Pitivi !
Today we're thrilled to announce a crowdfunding campaign to support the development of Pitivi! We have made the choice not to use one of the major crowdfunding platforms such as kickstarter for...
View ArticlePitivi fundraiser news: Votes: a tool of engagement and development.
During the creation of the campaign, we debated what kind of perks we should offer. The thing is, we are not t-shirt creators, we are software developers and UI designers. We believe people who give...
View ArticlePitivi fundraiser news: Using GStreamer to make smooth slow motion!
This is a very good example of what our developers can do! There has been some preliminary work on bringing slow and fast motion to GStreamer and Pitivi, and a plugin has been created to allow for...
View ArticleJean-François Fortin Tam (nekohayo): Pitivi status update for Q1 2014,...
Since my previous technical update in January, I haven’t had time to touch Pitivi’s code. Thankfully though, Alexandru Băluț has been filling the gap with a ton of refactoring work: around 150 commits!...
View ArticlePitivi fundraiser news: Pitivi Fundraiser Week One Update (And A Great Piece...
Greetings Pitivi supporters! We hope everyone had a great week! We've had a rather hectic one, and hopefully that's just the beginning. This is the first update for our fundraising campaign, be sure...
View ArticleFabian Orccon (cfoch): Ayuda a PiTiVi a llegar a su versión 1.0
PiTiVi, el editor de video open source, ha iniciado una recaudación de fondos para poder llegar a su versión 1.0. Como muchos de los usuarios de linux pueden saber, actualmente hay pocos programas de...
View ArticleJean-François Fortin Tam (nekohayo): Pitivi 0.93 released
Last week, a flash snowstorm brought me around 2ft of snow overnight. I thought, “If I’m going to clear that much snow, might as well have some fun and make a timelapse out of it”, and so I did. While...
View ArticlePitivi fundraiser news: GStreamer Hackfest and the first Beta release of...
Last week-end, part of the Pitivi Team went to the GStreamer Hackfest in Google's offices in Munich to work with twenty other GStreamer hackers on various important technical issues. A big thanks to...
View ArticleJean-François Fortin Tam (nekohayo): How do you visually represent a...
Here is a fun example to illustrate why software development in general is a complex endeavour:You think you’re going to fix a tiny problem: “hey, maybe we could make ‘s welcome dialog look a bit...
View ArticleFabian Orccon (cfoch): How to play a video using GES?
Hello. I want to show you an example of a command-line video player using GES. This program is very simple and my purpose is you learn the basis. I paste the enterily code here if you just want to read...
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