I'll be more to the opinion of Andy. This one seems to be the best ( mlt =>0.6.0 or 0.6.2). Why ? We support Lucid and +. I 've just checked on sunab repository and same if in the official repository the version is inferior to the 0.6.0/0.6.2, they can/should upgrade to the 0.7.2. This is available in the Sunab PPA. And they certainly upgrade it at a moment. We could only put a warning about the fact that the user should upgrade to a superior version if she is inferior at the 0.6.0/0.6.2.
About TJ and PPA. I remember pretty well. and what problems (** we have had with this PPA. Me too I am impatient to have our new video editing library and another thing. The day that we have not to said at our user to upgrade their version of MLT and frei0r-plugins to the ........................Sunab PPA. So it is a reason why I 'm interested to learn how package a software( i.e. frei0r-plugins) soon I have the time same if I have began by myselft. Anyway, it must two years for doing a good packager (source Canonical). I am not sure (=not for) to introduce MLT in our PPA. We could have some problems with. For me the best solution is to wait our new video editing library. Cheers. 2011/9/14 Jonathan Thomas <[email protected]> > All good points. =) I think we should definitely consider getting MLT into > our PPA. My only concern about including MLT, is this feeling that by > installing our PPA, it automatically flags MLT to be updated to our version, > which will likely break Kdenlive. Remember back to TJ and some of the > issues we had with his packaging and PPAs. All of a sudden, apps like VLC > no longer worked, and they blamed our PPA. > > Just a thought: We could add the "melt" based methods back in (and the > melt executable preference), in addition to the new code. Maybe, use the > old methods as a "fallback", if an older version of MLT is used. We could > also disable audio filters for older versions of MLT, prior to 0.6.0. Just > a few tweaks to the code in question, and we could support Ubuntu 10.04 to > Ubuntu 11.10 (4 releases). All of this will disappear when we switch to our > new video editing library. I can't wait for that day to come. =) > > My feeling is that once the "melt" issue and packaging issues are resolved, > there is not much more that will break on Ubuntu 10.04+, unless some pyGTK > stuff breaks. > > What do you think? > > Thanks! > -Jonathan > > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 1:55 AM, Andy Finch <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I'd be inclined to drop support for the older versions of MLT, or at least >> make 0.6.2 the minimum required for the following reasons: >> >> >> - Users will get a better experience all round with newer versions of >> MLT. >> - From 0.6.0 onwards, the audio effects in Openshot were not working >> due to changes in MLT - our code was modified some time back to accomodate >> sox/MLT incompatabilities, which changed again in 0.6.0. Now they do work >> on >> 0.6.0 and above, but probably wont work on anything earlier than that. >> - Kdenlive always specify a minimum MLT version (usually the latest) >> when they do a release, and they don't seem to get too many complaints >> about >> that. >> - One of the reasons for removing melt initially were that some >> non-Ubuntu distributions were apparently not going to ship melt (I don't >> have any confirmation of this). >> >> So long as we make it clear what versions are required and give some good >> instructions on how to obtain a later version of MLT (i.e. from a PPA) then >> I think we can get away with setting 0.6.2 as the minimum. I don't know >> what's involved, but could we feasibly include a package of MLT in our PPA? >> >> Andy. >> >> On 14 September 2011 07:17, Jonathan Thomas <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> While testing the Daily PPA tonight, I found a few problems right away. >>> The Setup.py file for OpenShot was modified to include the /docs/gnome and >>> /docs/omf folders, which now conflict with the openshot-docs packaging. >>> Also, I tested the PPA on Ubuntu 10.10, and it fails in the av_formats.py >>> file. Probably due to an older version of MLT (0.5.6). >>> >>> Error: ValueError: invalid null reference in method "new_Properties" >>> Ln 79: codecs = mlt.Properties(c.get_data('vcodec')) >>> >>> This same error is raised on the "vcodec", "acodec", and "formats" >>> methods. >>> >>> It's always tricky to decide which versions of Ubuntu to support. In >>> past releases of OpenShot, we usually stay compatible with the 4 most recent >>> versions of Ubuntu. So, I'm not sure the best way to solve this, other than >>> reverting the av_format.py code back to "melt", which is more compatible... >>> at least for another release. Any thoughts? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> -Jonathan >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Jonathan Thomas < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi everyone! >>>> >>>> *Daily PPA* >>>> I have setup a LaunchPad recipe ( >>>> https://code.launchpad.net/~openshot.code/+recipe/openshot-daily<https://code.launchpad.net/%7Eopenshot.code/+recipe/openshot-daily>) >>>> which takes the latest source code from our trunk, and the latest Debian >>>> packaging scripts from our Debian branch, and builds a daily version >>>> (assuming their are new commits in our trunk). The resulting packages are >>>> then automatically uploaded to a NEW Daily PPA: >>>> https://code.launchpad.net/~openshot.developers/+archive/daily<https://code.launchpad.net/%7Eopenshot.developers/+archive/daily>. >>>> I tried my best to give this PPA a "scary" name so only testers will >>>> install it. I haven't tested this new PPA yet, but I finally got it to >>>> build and publish without error... so hopefully it works good. I'm going >>>> to >>>> give it a test tonight. >>>> >>>> *Plans for 1.4.0:* >>>> This is going to happen really fast, so try and keep up. =) I have filed >>>> a new bug >>>> report<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mlt/+bug/848573>to sync >>>> the newest version of MLT (0.7.4-3) from Debian unstable to Ubuntu >>>> 11.10's repository. Hopefully, I'll be able to get the Ubuntu developers >>>> to >>>> approve the request, since the "Feature Freeze" for 11.10 is already in >>>> effect. Andy and I are freezing the code base of OpenShot as of today, for >>>> any new features. Translations will take place over the next 10 days (or >>>> so), and I will be posting a new blog entry to help motivate and recruit >>>> translators. This gives us 10 days to test OpenShot 1.4.0 on the following >>>> platforms (Lucid, Maverick, Natty, and Oneiric). Hopefully, the daily PPA >>>> will allow more people to help us test than normal. During this 10 days, >>>> only bug fixes, and translation updates will happen. Then we release 1.4.0 >>>> to Debian and our PPA somewhere between September 23rd and 26th. We'll let >>>> users give it a try for 1 or 2 days, and be sure we don't have any "huge" >>>> bugs. Then we'll submit a sync request (with feature freeze exception) to >>>> Ubuntu 11.10, and cross our fingers they will accept it. >>>> >>>> I would encourage every single person on this mailing list to help us >>>> test. We have a very short window of time to get this released in time for >>>> Ubuntu 11.10. I think it's very important we get our newest code into >>>> Ubuntu, due to the fact we are now a "Featured Application", and our user >>>> base will likely increase substantially over the next release cycle. So, >>>> please, please, please help us test during the next 10 days. Our new Daily >>>> PPA combined with a clean Ubuntu install on VirtualBox is a great >>>> combination for testing. Good luck to us all! =) >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> -Jonathan >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openshot.developers >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openshot.developers >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openshot.developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openshot.developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Olivier Cenwen un elfe sur la banquise/ an elve on the ice Mon blog perso sur le multimédia, Ubuntu, Linux et OpenShot : http://linuxevolution.wordpress.com/ Le forum d'Openshot où vous me trouverez : http://openshotusers.com/ http://openshotusers.com/forum/index.php Nothing is lost until the last second. The family motto : When we want, we can.
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