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

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 14:41, 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.
>
> [1] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-bad-plugins/html/gst-plugins-bad-plugins-camerabin.html

Maybe Daniel Siegel of Cheese fame can give some insight on that?
Added him to CC

Regards,

Tomeu

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