JahShaka

[Mike Cronenworth]

-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: Re:JahShaka
From: Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro>
To: Development discussions related to Fedora <fedora-devel-list at redhat.com>
Date: 05/12/2008 02:26 AM
> Casey Dahlin wrote:
>> I'd been hoping there was good video editing software for linux, and 
>> it looks like this may be it:
>>
>> http://jahshaka.org/
>>
>> Before I go through the review process:
>>
>> - Has anyone tried to package it? Why didn't you?
>> - Is there any obvious reason anyone knows of now that it could not 
>> be packaged?
>
> At a first glance at their website is not clear to me: what 
> video/audio codecs are they using?
> Can the application be built with multimedia codecs we are legally 
> allowed to include into Fedora? (that means OGG Theora/Vorbis but 
> *not* libavcodec).
>
Jahsaka 0.2 (current stable) requires FFMPEG
Jahsaka 0.3 (early development) OpenLibraries. includes MPEG/WMA stuff.

All around looks bad. A video editor would have to use gstreamer to get 
into Fedora.

Example:
http://www.pitivi.org/wiki/Main_Page