[SoaS] Record rewrite -- was Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS v2 approaching RC state

[Peter Robinson]

On 11/26/09, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:25:12AM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:51:55PM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian at when.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > > Hi all,
>> > >
>> > > with the next SoaS release coming up really soon (final image is
>> > > supposed to be composed this weekend, release date is Dec 8), there's
>> > > a
>> > > new snapshot ready for you. It includes a lot of fixes and smaller
>> > > adjustments. It's currently only available as a general .iso build,
>> > > others will presumably follow later. You can get it from here:
>> > >
>> > > http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/soas06.iso
>> > >
>> > > Let us know how it goes and help us debugging and fixing the remaining
>> > > bugs here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/soas/+bugs
>> > >
>> > > A last note, if anybody knows what's wrong with Record, Cairo and F12,
>> >
>> > Who is the maintainer of Record? It would be a pity to ship BB without
>> > that working as its one off the Activities that kids seem to love.
>> > What's the issue with Cairo?
>>
>> last time /me patched Record.. and looks like it doesn't work in 0.86
>> for a long time, so its the right moment to fix 0.86 issues then
>
> Sorry, I'm a bit stuck with it, my plans were to rewrite Record-65
> and make lightweight Record:
>
> * w/o collaboration feature as it was designed in existed Record
>   * it just share records, I'm planing to do the same on Journal level
>   * it just doesn't work well(especially for big files)
> * w/o gtk.Windows that represent Record's controls, only widgets
> * using more robust gst scheme
>
> I decide to use camerabin[1] gst plugin which is a good option for
> Record but it doesn't work(stop w/ gst errors on recording) any help
> from people who are aware of such gst and video recording stuff is
> appreciated.

You shouldn't rely on any of the plugins in gst-plugins-bad as most
distros won't ship them by default due to either quality or legal
issues. Can you look at what apps like cheese use for that sort of
thing?

Peter