NewSeason

The situation of the newseason package, that you can download with the command

cvs co -r newseason mob

, is as follows:

• The new infrastructure is in place. I extrapolated a few moments to   write some info on it. In the package you will find two files that   you can peruse with openoffice. They are called -- mob.sxd - mob.pdf (an A3 page with a graphical view) -- report2004.sxw - report2004.pdf (a few pages' text with some details)

There is much more that I should have written, but I had bugs to hunt until 20 minutes ago, and I now must turn my attention to a nasty 1-august deadline.

• Available modules are:

  ** The X-window display

  ** The Video4linux input module

  ** The Mpeg/Quicktime playback module (see README.MPEG)

  ** The algorithm module

  ** The midi module

  ** The multigen effect (a NxM? video signal matrix)

• I dedicated a couple of days to begin with the infrastructure for   the effects module. The work looks nice but it is as of now totally   useless. I expect one whole more week is needed to bring it to work   with the known three effects. The reason why so much time is needed,   is that I have modularized the effects, too. This should render it   not too messy to adapt to LiViDo or the FreeFrame modules (although   I saw that those effects that use assembly are not   linux-compatible).
• The other modules that were present in the stable MøB still are   not ported.

There were talks with Gisle about trying to find a couple more weeks to bring all this to a usable level. It may be possible to do that before the coming Piksel. In the meantime, I'd like to have some feedback. The package should compile without warning (I added -Werror to the CFLAGS so that warnings stop the compilation).

You can find a couple of test scripts in the /scripts directory, when you download the CVS stuff. The XML is somewhat more complex than it used to be. But this results in a much more powerful system.