Project status?

[Todd Tyree]

I notice that the main git repository has had no activity since the initial import in September and rubyforge still installs gem version 0.9.3. Is http://github.com/Artforge/rvideo/tree/master now the 'official' master?  Also, I need the capture_frame functionality (last commented here in December) fairly urgently.  I'm happy to patch it myself, but am not sure which repo to pull from in the first instance. 

Cheers,
Todd

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[Seth Thomas Rasmussen]

Hi Todd (and all, really),

On Feb 14, 7:25 am, Todd Tyree <t...@snappl.co.uk> wrote:
> I notice that the main git repository has had no activity since the initial

> import in September and rubyforge still installs gem version 0.9.3. Ishttp://github.com/Artforge/rvideo/tree/masternow the 'official' master?

> Also, I need the capture_frame functionality (last commented here in
> December) fairly urgently. I'm happy to patch it myself, but am not sure
> which repo to pull from in the first instance.

I was wondering about the state of RVideo, too. I spoke to Jon Dahl,
and he says that the latest work he and the Zencoder people have done
is not fully abstracted away from the application they are working on.
He asked if I've any interest in putting together a "master" repo. I
definitely do, so I've created a fork of RVideo on GitHub with the
intention of getting a contemporary, public RVideo source going again.

http://github.com/greatseth/rvideo

I took the 0.9.5, test-less code in the "zencoder" repo, did a little
hack and slash to get the 0.9.4 Rubyforge SVN specs passing against
that and am going to move on from there. I'm not convinced that all
the changes I made are appropriate, but I thought "it's a start" and
we can figure it out from here.

That repo has a few important fixes:

- Metadata parsing is agnostic about the exact contents of the "need
an output file" line in ffmpeg. Later ffmpeg builds would not work
with most versions of RVideo out there because of a bad regexp.
- Input/output filenames are quoted for the command strings to avoid
problems with spaces, ampersands and other special characters

I've marked some old posts on the mailing list with patches or feature
suggestions for later attention, as well. I would, of course, love any
help with all of this.

Some of the guys from Zencoder are going to be getting some of their
work on RVideo into this mix in the next month or so as well.

[tatyree]

On Feb 17, 2:46 pm, Seth Thomas Rasmussen <sethrasmus...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I was wondering about the state of RVideo, too. I spoke to Jon Dahl,
> and he says that the latest work he and the Zencoder people have done
> is not fully abstracted away from the application they are working on.
> He asked if I've any interest in putting together a "master" repo. I
> definitely do, so I've created a fork of RVideo on GitHub with the
> intention of getting a contemporary, public RVideo source going again.
>
> http://github.com/greatseth/rvideo

Seth, that's brilliant, thanks. If I get a bit of time in the next
few days, I'll fork it and give you a hand.

>
> I took the 0.9.5, test-less code in the "zencoder" repo, did a little
> hack and slash to get the 0.9.4 Rubyforge SVN specs passing against
> that and am going to move on from there. I'm not convinced that all
> the changes I made are appropriate, but I thought "it's a start" and
> we can figure it out from here.
>
> That repo has a few important fixes:
>

And you got rid of the Transcoder.logger calls, which had become
LOGGER globals in Tools::AbstractTool#assign in 0.96.

>
> I've marked some old posts on the mailing list with patches or feature
> suggestions for later attention, as well. I would, of course, love any
> help with all of this.

Should we roll a lighthouse instance for it? I'd have gone ahead and
done it, but I'm out of free instances and don't really have time to
own it. Anyway, someone from Zencoder should probably ultimately be
the owner.

Cheers,
Todd