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[Helen McCall <wildnfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Jonathan,

Yes he has a very realistic opinion of the various video editors for
Linux, but hadn't come across OpenShot before.

I did a bit of happy trolling on the ubuntu-news site offering to write
an article on why I wanted to work in the Ubuntu Community. The article
is going to be a cut down version of what I put on my blog.

But that gave me an opportunity to talk to a few of the Ubuntu Members
from ubuntu-news and ubuntu-women.

I was told that your problems with ffmpeg were common to every project
that uses ffmpeg. One or two people recommended static linking it, until
I explained that OpenShot is in Python.

Most of them recommended that we concentrate on developing it for Karmic
9.10 because the updated ffmpeg and mlt libraries might work.

I checked the versions using rmadison and got the following for Jaunty
and Karmic:

helen@pliny:~/ffmpeg$ rmadison mlt
       mlt | 0.2.4.svn20071228-0.0ubuntu2 | hardy/universe | source
       mlt | 0.2.4.svn20071228-0.0ubuntu4 | intrepid/universe | source
       mlt | 0.3.8-0ubuntu2 | jaunty/universe | source
       mlt |    0.4.4-2 | karmic/universe | source

    ffmpeg | 3:0.svn20090303-1ubuntu2+unstripped1 | jaunty/multiverse |
source
    ffmpeg | 3:0.svn20090303-1ubuntu6 |        jaunty | amd64, i386
    ffmpeg | 4:0.5+svn20090609-1ubuntu3 |        karmic | amd64, i386
    ffmpeg | 4:0.5+svn20090609-2+unstripped2 | karmic/multiverse |
source

Most said that to avoid any breaking of other programs using ffmpeg, it
is best to static link ffmpeg - so maybe try static linking into the
0.4.5 version of mlt to give a super-library for Openshot which won't
break other packages.

Later this week I am going to submit my openshot-docs package to REVU
and see what they say.

I think the freeze goes on today, so later this week they won't have
such a pressure on REVU. Ubuntu Members like Andrea Veri are encouraging
us to put the packages up for REVU and get some advice that way.

Best wishes, Helen










On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 12:32 -0500, Jonathan Thomas wrote:
> Helen,
> That's great news!  If he is a big fan, then hopefully he will mention
> us on the Ubuntu news site, and possibly get some Ubuntu packaging
> experts to help us out.  Very exciting.
> 
> Thanks!
> -Jonathan
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Helen McCall
> <wildnfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>         Hello Jonathan.
>         
>         Today I have been on the #ubuntu-news channel talking to Craig
>         Eddy who
>         edits the Ubuntu news reports.
>          I talked him through installing OpenShot first. He was using
>         an old
>         Dell 32 bit machine running 9.04. His first attempt failed and
>         so I
>         talked him through carefully and he got it working.
>         
>         His comment after installing was; "Tell Jonathan thank you for
>         putting
>         in option 2 - reinstall.  it wipes out the directories that
>         went bad and
>         re-downloads everything fresh.  Nicely done."
>         
>         I then talked him through using it whilst he played around
>         with an old
>         government film about ploughing! He then declared OpenShot was
>         the best
>         he had yet seen. He said once we get the install a bit
>         smoother with
>         proper packages we should have no trouble with getting it into
>         the
>         Ubuntu repos.
>         
>         Then he said he was going to use it to produce some
>         "info-mercials"
>         about Ubuntu to run at Ubuntu fests.
>         
>         Best wishes, Helen
>         
>         
>         
>         
>