ANN: Chandler 1.0
Heikki Toivonen
Desktop 1.0!
The Chandler Project is an open source, standards-based information
manager designed for personal use and small group collaboration.
For more information on the Chandler Desktop 1.0, including the major
changes we've made since the previous full release, 0.7, see the
following blog post:
http://blog.chandlerproject.org/2008/08/08/chandler-10/
Chandler Desktop 1.0 is available for download for Windows, Mac, and
Linux at:
http://chandlerproject.org/download
Additional information is available from the Chandler Project homepage.
Thanks for your interest in Chandler Desktop!
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Heikki Toivonen - http://www.heikkitoivonen.net
Aahz
Heikki Toivonen <hjtoi-better-rem...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>The Chandler Project is pleased to announce the release of Chandler
>Desktop 1.0!
Congrats! It's been a long, strange road....
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SPE - Stani's Python Editor
when_reply...@comcast.net> wrote:
> The Chandler Project is pleased to announce the release of Chandler
> Desktop 1.0!
>
> The Chandler Project is an open source, standards-based information
> manager designed for personal use and small group collaboration.
also your screencasts in open source video standards such (as ogg
video) instead of only mov and flash.
Thanks,
Stani
Carl Banks
Cool. Maybe we'll Duke Nukem Forever soon, too.
Carl Banks
Kay Schluehr
<spe.stani...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10 aug, 04:54, Heikki Toivonen <hjtoi-better-remove-when_reply...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > The Chandler Project is pleased to announce the release of Chandler
> > Desktop 1.0!
> Congratulations!
>
> > The Chandler Project is an open source, standards-based information
> > manager designed for personal use and small group collaboration.
>
> As an open source project please be kind to Linux users and provide
> also your screencasts in open source video standards such (as ogg
> video) instead of only mov and flash.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stani
Since it is an open source project you can add this functionality if
you like it.
Ben Finney
> On 11 Aug., 04:43, "SPE - Stani's Python Editor"
> <spe.stani...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > As an open source project please be kind to Linux users and provide
> > also your screencasts in open source video standards such (as ogg
> > video) instead of only mov and flash.
>
> Since it is an open source project you can add this functionality if
> you like it.
The program may be free software, but the video is not.
The option of properly re-encoding the video is only available for
those who have free access to the "source", i.e. the original video in
lossless format. Since (according to Stani) the video is only
available to him in non-free, lossy Flash or Quicktime, that qualifies
as neither of "free access" nor "lossless format".
The originator of the video, on the other hand, presumably has both,
and is in a position to re-encode the video in an open and free format
such as Ogg Theora or Ogg Dirac, and make it available to others.
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Ben Finney
Kay Schluehr
wrote:
> Kay Schluehr <kay.schlu...@gmx.net> writes:
> > On 11 Aug., 04:43, "SPE - Stani's Python Editor"
> > <spe.stani...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > As an open source project please be kind to Linux users and provide
> > > also your screencasts in open source video standards such (as ogg
> > > video) instead of only mov and flash.
>
> > Since it is an open source project you can add this functionality if
> > you like it.
>
> The program may be free software, but the video is not.
>
> The option of properly re-encoding the video is only available for
> those who have free access to the "source", i.e. the original video in
> lossless format. Since (according to Stani) the video is only
> available to him in non-free, lossy Flash or Quicktime, that qualifies
> as neither of "free access" nor "lossless format".
You are right and I shouldn't have responded when I actually don't
even care. My fault.
Kay
mim...@gmail.com
Do you have a recommendation for how I can convert the quicktime and
flash movies to ogg? I've had a hard time finding conversion apps for
the Mac.I'd also be happy to turn over the original movies to anyone
who can help me convert them.
Thanks!
Mimi (Product Designer, Chandler Project - aka Author of the Videos;)
Ben Finney
> Do you have a recommendation for how I can convert the quicktime and
> flash movies to ogg?
That would produce an inferior result, since the Quicktime and Flash
movies have (I assume) already been converted to a lossy codec
<URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossy_compression>. To process that
data again through another lossy codec will cause a poor result,
similar to making a photocopy of a photocopy.
Much better would be to start with the video in its non-lossy form
(either uncompressed, or compressed only with some lossless codec) and
use that as the source for conversion to Dirac or Theora. This is the
same principle as making a photocopy from the original, rather than
from another photocopy.
Presumably the Quicktime and Flash videos were created from some
original lossless data source. Any further encoding should be done
from a source as close to the original as possible.
> I've had a hard time finding conversion apps for the Mac.I'd also be
> happy to turn over the original movies to anyone who can help me
> convert them.
I don't know anything about MacOS applications. I do know that the BBC
developed the "Schroedinger" (Schrödinger) implementation for encoding
video to Dirac; you may want to see if that's available for your OS.
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Ben Finney
Fredrik Lundh
>> Thanks for your interest in Chandler Desktop!
>
> Cool. Maybe we'll Duke Nukem Forever soon, too.
it's rumored to be available as an easter egg in chandler. I don't seem
to have found the right key combination yet, though.
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