Re: JahShaka

[Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin ncsu edu>]

Mike Cronenworth wrote:
> -------- Original Message  --------
> Subject: Re:JahShaka
> From: Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora nicubunu ro>
> To: Development discussions related to Fedora 
> <fedora-devel-list redhat com>
> Date: 05/12/2008 02:26 AM
> > Casey Dahlin wrote:
> > > I'd been hoping there was good video editing software for linux, and 
> > > it looks like this may be it:
> > >
> > > http://jahshaka.org/
> > >
> > > Before I go through the review process:
> > >
> > > - Has anyone tried to package it? Why didn't you?
> > > - Is there any obvious reason anyone knows of now that it could not 
> > > be packaged?
> >
> > At a first glance at their website is not clear to me: what 
> > video/audio codecs are they using?
> > Can the application be built with multimedia codecs we are legally 
> > allowed to include into Fedora? (that means OGG Theora/Vorbis but 
> > *not* libavcodec).
> Jahsaka 0.2 (current stable) requires FFMPEG
> Jahsaka 0.3 (early development) OpenLibraries. includes MPEG/WMA stuff.
>
> All around looks bad. A video editor would have to use gstreamer to 
> get into Fedora.
>
> Example:
> http://www.pitivi.org/wiki/Main_Page
Why would it have to be GStreamer? Wouldn't anything 
un-patent-encumbered do? (Not that this isn't un-patent-encumbered, but 
in the general case).

--CJD