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20061123
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I'm feeling lucky that I've able to spend my sparetime (and some more)
on pushing xjadeo in the last two weeks! It's about time to refocus on
using xjadeo, but there'll be ongoing low-pri development and support.
Luis has put it quite well in saying:
Ooooh, how has this baby grown up :_( 8-D
check the TODO and doc/ for further information.
the docbook is available online at
http://xjadeo.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html#news
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20061106
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xjadeo has been working fine for personal usage over few month now, and
though we lack time to clean up xjadeo, it's yet time for another release :)
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20060521
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xjadeo has been working fine for personal usage over a month now, and
though we lack time to clean up xjadeo, it's yet time for another release.
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20060422
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after 2 months of xjadeo-0.3 rewrite, testing and using
we find that the current xjadeo implements all features
we expect from a simple video monitor :)
New Features:
* XV, SDL, gtk display backends.
* remote control API allows to interact with a running instance
of xjadeo.
* (independant) QT Graphical User Interface
* MIDI MTC can be used as alternate synchronization source.
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20051103
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Robin Gareus has jumped aboard and carried xjadeo from a quick hack for my
personal usage to the level of a distributable beta package, throwing in
some improvements on the way for good measure. Many kudos to him!
The main problem people had so far to use xjadeo is to install the right
set of libraries to build it.
Ffmpeg is especially problematic, since it is under heavy development and
is thus very unstable. Using only a minimal part of ffmpeg API, we had to
make changes in xjadeo to accomodate three different changes in ffmpeg
interface that broke xjadeo.
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
It is likely that ffmpeg will continue evolving in a non backwards compatible
way, so bear in mind that updating ffmpeg may break xjadeo.
xjadeo has been tested with the following versions of ffmpeg:
- ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.20041110.0.1.rhfc3.ccrma.i386.rpm
- ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.20050427.1.1.fc3.rpm
It has been tested in debian distros as well.
NEW FUNCTIONALITY
- Resizing the window will resize the movie as well.
(CAVEAT: resizing a video frame to make it fit the window is a cpu expensive
operation. If you are not comfortable with the screen size of your movie
it is more cpu efficient that you resize the file before loading it in xjadeo,
via, e.g., 'mencoder'.)
- Pressing Mouse button 1 - will resize the monitor window to the original
movie size.
- Mouse button 2 and 3 adjust the window to match the movie aspect ratio.
- Scroll Wheel (button 4,5) stepwise decreases / increases the window size
maintaining the original aspect ratio.
Use your Window Manager kill button or CTRL-C to quit xjadeo.
NEW OPTIONS
xjadeo accepts the following options:
-q, --quiet, --silent
Inhibit usual output.
-v, --verbose
Print more information.
-k, --keyframes
Seek only to keyframes of the video. (improves performance but makes
playing jerky or simply static if keyframes are not frequent ).
-t, --try-codec
Check if the given video file can be played by xjadeo. No window
is opened in this mode. The program exits with code 1 if the file
format is not supported.
-f, --fps
How often xjadeo updates the screen. The default is 10 fps (not
the video file default)!
-h, --help
Shows a summary of the options.
-V, --version
Shows the version of the program.
-o --offset
Time offset in video-frames. There is a machine-dependent time lag
between jack transport and video display. This option allows to
compensate for it.
NEW PACKAGING OPTIONS
Configuration files for building RPM and DEB packages have been added.
AUTHORS
Luis Garrido <luisgarrido@users.sourceforge.net>,
Robin Gareus <robin@gareus.org>