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Linux DevCenter; By Jono Bacon
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The GStreamer technology at the heart of PiTiVi has been in development for six years. It provides a means of stringing together different components to satisfy various multimedia needs. As an example, an application can read in a file, send it through a decoder plugin, run it through an effects plugin, and then display it to the screen or create an encoded file. GStreamer provides a comprehensive means of hooking together these different plugins in an infinite number of combinations. The plugin architecture opens up the development process to allow anyone to make GStreamer plugins for a range of different needs

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Comments (1)

Could be very nice, though the references to Python scare me just a bit -- and I love Python.

This whole piece could have been written about Arts (albeit for sound only), and may have been, just a few years ago.

Video editing is very demanding stuff, and the road from design to good implementation working well has more than a few potholes.

That is why Cinelerra remains the only serious video editing option for Linux. Let's see how well these guys do in traversing the road from being impressed with their own great idea and talking to a few people to making something that will do serious work.

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