[linux-audio-user] [ANN] xjadeo-0.4.0-rc1

Dragan Noveski perodog at gmx.net
Fri Dec 1 08:13:53 EST 2006


Robin Gareus wrote:
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> xjadeo-0.4.0-rc1  - X Jack Video Monitor
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> http://xjadeo.sourceforge.net/
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> Xjadeo is a simple movie player that synchronizes video to an external
> time source such as jack transport. It is intended to aid sound
> composition to a video clip.
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> This is a rewrite of the previous 0.1 release and a
> conclusion of the ongoing development during the last year.
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> New Features include
>  * displays: Xv, x11+imlib2
>  * fullscreen and letterbox video
>  * improved video file reading via ffmpeg
>  * on screen display
>  * configuration file
>  * LASH - session management
>  * optional GUI - qjadeo
>  * remote control interface
>  * Midi Time Clock quarterframe sync
>  * documentation
>  * OSX support (experimental)
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> Release Notes:
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> Mixing ffmepg and Xv may produce unexpected effects on some
> architectures. Please report them as those are the main reason for this
> release-candidate: http://xjadeo.sourceforge.net/doc/ar01s03.html#problems
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> Although there are many new Features, only the on-screen-display might
> have an impact on the perfomance of xjadeo. since 0.3.13 xjadeo
> uses gettimeofday(3) for it's internal timekeeping. - it appears that
> using clock(3) was a major-bug in the original xjadeo code, though not
> harmful.
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> The default xjadeo configuration is to run with a low profile:
> Additional Features need to be enabled explicitly (LASH is an
> exception). Performance highly depends on the Codec and geometry of the
> video file: the -K, -k arguments allow to seek many file formats - but
> is intended only for preview!
> http://xjadeo.sourceforge.net/doc/ar01s03.html#video_formats
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> There are open ends in osX support: This version includes workarounds
> for use with ffmpeg on PPC. , but they might not work for all versions
> of ffmpeg. - Are you an intel-mac user who succeeded to run 'make test'
> in the ffmpeg svn src? - give us a wink  :)
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> http://packman.links2linux.org/package/xjadeo/ provides SuSE-RPMs for
> i586 and also for x64-64bit. many thanks! We are pleasantly surprised,
> since we expected serious video-Codec and xjadeo-Xv problems for 64 bit
> architecture. We have not tested any of the RPMs ourselves. - imlib
> display + mjpeg codec should work though.
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> A beta-devel debian package can be built from source and the
> xjadeo.spec.in is intended for FC4 RPMs.
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> robin /at/ gareus /dot/ org
> luisgarrido /at/ users /dot/ sourceforge /dot/ net
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hi, thanks for this, compiles very fine and the lash support is really a 
good thing!!

cheers,
doc



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