JahShaka

[Casey Dahlin]

Mike Cronenworth wrote:
> -------- 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
>
Why would it have to be GStreamer? Wouldn't anything 
un-patent-encumbered do? (Not that this isn't un-patent-encumbered, but 
in the general case).

--CJD