GNU Emacs video mode supporters are welcome

GNU Emacs video mode supporters are welcome

[Mátyási Arnold]

Dear GNU Emacs community,

There is a 3 member community for using GNU Emacs as a video editor
based on GPL-ed free software: mplayer and avidemux. Martin Howse
(London/Berlin) started an Emacs lisp project this year, Gabor Torok
and Arn Matyasi (Budapest) joined him this late summer. We have now a
working proof of concept GNU Emacs video editor mode in an alpha
stage.

GNU Emacs is used for composing an Edit Decision List using mplayer
for previewing films and using avidemux for rendering final edited
movie. We agreed on transferring copyright to FSF and releasing
gneve.el (GNU Emacs Video Editor mode) as GPLv3 and we registered this
project at Savannah. https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?7328 and working
on details to comply with GNU standards.

If you think that Emacs is ideal also for editing videos we welcome
you and may ask for your kind support. We are more or less experienced
Emacs users but still novice Emacs lisp and GNU programmers so we
would like to learn from advanced Emacs people.

Home page of gneve.el is at http://1010.co.uk/gneve.html

Thank you for GNU Emacs,
Best regards,

Arn Matyasi

Re: GNU Emacs video mode supporters are welcome

[Juri Linkov]

> If you think that Emacs is ideal also for editing videos we welcome
> you and may ask for your kind support. We are more or less experienced
> Emacs users but still novice Emacs lisp and GNU programmers so we
> would like to learn from advanced Emacs people.

This is an interesting project.  You might want to look at my package
for editing audio files in Emacs - http://jurta.org/emacs/sndtr.el
to get more ideas about editing media files using external programs.

Also I suggest you looking at the new package doc-view.el implemented
by Tassilo Horn to get ideas for viewing a sequence of images in the
Emacs buffer.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/

Re: GNU Emacs video mode supporters are welcome

[Richard Stallman]

    There is a 3 member community for using GNU Emacs as a video editor
    based on GPL-ed free software: mplayer and avidemux. Martin Howse
    (London/Berlin) started an Emacs lisp project this year, Gabor Torok
    and Arn Matyasi (Budapest) joined him this late summer. We have now a
    working proof of concept GNU Emacs video editor mode in an alpha
    stage.

It is a delightful surprise that Emacs is suitable for such a job.
This is a neat project.

Can you make it work with VLC instead of mplayer?
We don't list mplayer in the Free Software Directory,
because it encourages use of non-free codecs.
It is important to make our own actions support what
we recommend to others.