Slashdot is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror

Submission + - Pitivi Video Editor surpasses 50% crowdfunding goal, releases version 0.94

Submitted by kxra
kxra writes: With the latest developments, Pitivi is proving to truly be a promising libre video editor for GNU distributions as well as a serious contender for bringing libre video production up to par with its proprietary counterparts. Since launching a beautifully well-organized crowdfunding campaign (as covered here previously), the team has raised over half of their 35,000 € goal to pay for full-time development and has entered "beta" status for version 1.0. They've released two versions, 0.94 (release notes) being the most recent, which have brought full MPEG-TS/AVCHD support, porting to Python 3, lots of UX improvements, and—of course—lots and lots of bug fixes. The next release (0.95) will run on top of Non Linear Engine, a refined and incredibly more robust backend Pitivi developers have produced to replace GNonLin and bring Pitivi closer to the rock-solid stability needed for the final 1.0 release.
Programming

Is It Time To Split Linux Distros In Two? 282

Posted by samzenpus from the programming-of-solomon dept.
snydeq writes Desktop workloads and server workloads have different needs, and it's high time Linux consider a split to more adequately address them, writes Deep End's Paul Venezia. You can take a Linux installation of nearly any distribution and turn it into a server, then back into a workstation by installing and uninstalling various packages. The OS core remains the same, and the stability and performance will be roughly the same, assuming you tune they system along the way. Those two workloads are very different, however, and as computing power continues to increase, the workloads are diverging even more. Maybe it's time Linux is split in two. I suggested this possibility last week when discussing systemd (or that FreeBSD could see higher server adoption), but it's more than systemd coming into play here. It's from the bootloader all the way up. The more we see Linux distributions trying to offer chimera-like operating systems that can be a server or a desktop at a whim, the more we tend to see the dilution of both. You can run stock Debian Jessie on your laptop or on a 64-way server. Does it not make sense to concentrate all efforts on one or the other?"

Submission + - Vastly improved Raspberry Pi performance with Wayland

Submitted by nekohayo
nekohayo writes: While Wayland/Weston 1.1 brought support to the Raspberry Pi merely a month ago, work has recently been done to bring true hardware-accelerated compositing capabilities to the RPi's graphics stack using Weston. The Raspberry Pi foundation has made an announcement about the work that has been done with Collabora to make this happen. X.org/Wayland developer Daniel Stone has written a blog post about this, including a video demonstrating the improved reactivity and performance. Developer Pekka Paalanen also provided additional technical details about the implementation.

Comment Re:Question (Score 1) 95

by nekohayo (#43391629) Attached to: Video Editor Kdenlive 0.9.6 Released

Lossless cutting (provided that your output codecs match your input codecs) is a feature of the "GStreamer Editing Services" library and thus will be part of the next release of Pitivi (barring unforeseen bugs of course - usual disclaimer applies: no guarantee, patches welcome for issues that may arise, etc. :)

Last time I tested (a year ago), this allowed rendering a project in 7 seconds instead of 5 minutes. Pretty cool if you don't need to apply any effects and just want to shuffle some cuts around quickly without losing quality.
Media

Submission + - Director of "Elephants Dream" releasing new Blender-animated film, "Tube" (kickstarter.com)

Submitted by
TheSilentNumber
TheSilentNumber writes: "Bassam Kurdali's free culture 3D animation, "Tube" is nearing the final stages of production. Tube is a collaborative effort between 56 artists from 22 countries...some of which are at war. After directing the first of the Blender Institute's "Open Movie Projects", Elephants Dream, Bassam wanted to prove the viability of free cultural works and usability of free software like Blender and PiTiVi for independent filmmakers. Just a few days after launching a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for the project, the goal has been met, which means we should see the final release in 7 months!"

Comment Password database (Score 0) 185

by nekohayo (#36512654) Attached to: Dropbox Password Goof Let Any Password Work For 4 Hours
I never used dropbox for anything more than a handful spreadsheets I had to work with in school, because I never entrusted the "cloud" with my sensitive data. This is why iFolder (and now SparkleShare) are so promising, and why I keep using Unison in the meantime. The big question I have to ask today is: were the dropbox user account passwords accessible, or was it "just" the files? I need to know if I have to change the dozens of websites that use that particular password *again* (remember the Gawker password dump?).

Comment Demand (Score 0) 182

by nekohayo (#35990462) Attached to: Kdenlive 0.8 Adds Advanced Features for NLV Editing
There are many reasons why consumer/prosumer video editing for Linux still isn't there yet, and not moving at a very rapid pace. If my talk proposal is accepted, I'll be presenting them in detail at Libre Graphics Meeting next week (there should be a video recording of the talk afterwards). Off the top of my head, I can give you some broad clues: the very small market of Linux desktop users (1.5%) combined with the small percentage of computer users who actually do video editing, combined with the very small percentage of those who know programming, combined with the incredibly hard task that is making a full-fledged, stable video editor, combined with the general lack of economic incentives for it. Oh, and the fact that everyone keeps trying to reinvent the wheel.

Slashdot Top Deals

"Nuclear war would really set back cable." - Ted Turner

Close