video people: freemix 0.2beta is out :)

[Luis de Bethencourt]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 5:52 AM, laurent.bellegarde
<laurent.bellegarde at free.fr> wrote:
> Luis de Bethencourt a écrit :
>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:03 PM, laurent.bellegarde
>> <laurent.bellegarde at free.fr> wrote:
>>
>>> Luis de Bethencourt a écrit :
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:46 PM, laurent.bellegarde
>>>> <laurent.bellegarde at free.fr> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> laurent.bellegarde a écrit :
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Luis de Bethencourt a écrit :
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> i'm very happy to announce freemix 0.2 beta is out! :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>> tested under UBS hardy 64,
>>>>>
>>>>> install ok
>>>>>
>>>>> but at start up, something wicked :
>>>>>
>>>>> -------------------------
>>>>> laurent at laurent-laptop:/media/sauve/mon_ubuntu/sources/freemix$ freemix
>>>>> python: can't open file 'src/freemix.py': [Errno 2] No such file or
>>>>> directory
>>>>> -------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> I think, the trouble is coming from python-object which is 2.14.2 in hardy.
>>>>>
>>>>> freemix
>>>>>    is a free live video editing software, thought for and made
>>>>>    by live video artists.
>>>>>
>>>>> The following are needed to run:
>>>>>   - python
>>>>>   - python-gtk2
>>>>>   - pygobject  2.16
>>>>>   - gstreamer-0.10
>>>>>   - gstreamer-0.10-plugins-base
>>>>>   - gstreamer-0.10-plugins-good
>>>>>   - python-gst0.10
>>>>>
>>>>> hope it helps
>>>>>
>>>>> Laurent
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>> Ooops. Thanks for letting me know about this.
>>>>
>>>> A friend made the setup.py and made a small error. It should be fixed
>>>> and the tarball in the website is updated. Please confirm that after
>>>> doing:
>>>> sudo ./setup.py install
>>>> freemix
>>>>
>>>> It loads correctly.
>>>>
>>>> Luis
>>>>
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> tarball's install : ok
>>>
>>> launching seems to be ok now but another error, maybe the hardy's one :
>>>
>>> laurent at laurent-laptop:/media/sauve/mon_ubuntu/sources/freemix$ freemix
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>  File "/usr/bin/freemix", line 33, in <module>
>>>    from gui import Gui
>>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gui.py", line 26, in <module>
>>>    import gio
>>> ImportError: No module named gio
>>>
>>> Bye, ready for anothers tests...
>>>
>>> Laurent
>>>
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>>
>> Exactly! That is the pygobject error because gio was introduced in
>> 2.16, and hardy has 2.15.
>>
>> I'm going to try to backport pygobject, and if not I have a workaround
>> for this problem.
>> Do you have any Intrepid machine?
>>
>> Luis
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> at this time no; but i've installed virtualbox with UBS intrepid 32bits
> inside to test kdenlive 0.7. I'm gonna test this afternoon in intrepid.
>
> Laurent
>
>

Cool. I'm going to add a little code to freemix so it checks if gio is
available and if not, it will use gnome-video-thumbnailer for the
video thumbnails.

Will let you know when this is in the tarball. :)

Luis