2010
02.11
Last weekend during the FOSDEM 2010, we planned to release our first technical preview of VLMC.
This version will be tagged as the 0.0.1 and will be made available for Windows and Unix.
The schedule:
- February 17th: Feature Freeze
- March 3rd: String Freeze
- March 24th: Release (estimated)
Some explanations about these terms:
- Feature Freeze means that no new features will be accepted in the trunk after that date, only bug fixes and improvements of existing features will be merged.
- String Freeze is the deadline where all the visible strings of the interface can not be changed. This ensures for the translators that they won’t have to rush during the hours that precedes the release.
Please note that this will be a preview and many key features will be missing (or even buggy).
In the meantime you can help us to squash bugs and send some patches !
2009
12.17
After 9 months of hard work, VideoLAN Movie Creator (aka VLMC) will be unveiled to the community during the VideoLAN Dev’days 2009 in Paris!
VLMC is a free, cross-platform, non-linear video editing software based on the famous VLC Media Player.
Made by a team of 6 students, the project started in March 2009 as an end of studies project and is now (almost) ready for its first public alpha release. Expected for early 2010, it will provide a new alternative for editing videos on Linux, Windows and even Mac.
Meet us and discover the new power of the cone on the 18th, 19th and 20th december 2009 in Paris.
2009
07.12
Today, my girlfriend had to create an Ebook (in pdf) using some images acquired from a scanner (using xsane). After searching a while on google how to do that I remembered that ImageMagick was the tool to manipulate images, so I gave it a try. Luckily (for me) it worked!
After this brief introduction, it’s time to share the two-steps solution with you.
Acquire the documents
The first step is to scan all of your documents using xsane. For a good quality use a DPI of 200 or more. You should name them accordingly to the order of inclusion. For example: 0001.png, 0002.png, …
Create the PDF
Now in a console, use this simple command to generate the ebook.
convert -define pdf:use-trimbox=true -compress jpeg -quality 95% *.png ebook.pdf
Remember that it can take some time if you have many pages.
That’s all folks !
2009
07.07
VLC Media Player
After more than a year of work, the VideoLAN community is proud to announce that VLC 1.0.0 is finally out !
This release has been delayed many times since February (the original release date chosen during the VideoLAN dev’days 2008) but reached its goal today. More stable, tons of new features, this release is definitely the best and most advanced release of VLC.
Take a look at the impressive changelog, and give it a try !
A list of the most *bling* *bling* enhancements since 0.9.9:
- Increased stability
- Reduced memory usage
- Live recording
- Instant pausing and Frame-by-Frame support
- New HD codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0, …)
- New formats (Raw Dirac, M2TS, …) and majors improvements in many formats…
- New Dirac encoder and MP3 fixed-point encoder
- Video scaling in full-screen
- RTSP Trickplay support
- Zipped file playback
- Customizable toolbars
- Easier encoding GUI in Qt interface
- Better integration in GTK environments
- MTP devices on Linux
- Air Tunes streaming
- And much more…
Download it now !
2009
07.03
… no, just kidding.
As you can imagine this is not really my first blog post ever. As every geek on this planet I already owned thousands of (unmaintained) blogs before. This is just one more 
Now it’s maybe time to briefly introduce myself to my fellow readers !
I’m Ludovic, a 24 years old guy living in Paris with his girlfriend and a cat (yes, that matters). I’m a free software activist and developer, taking part in some small and medium-sized projects; but this will be the subject of an upcoming post. Last but not least, I’m also a KDE and VIM user (FTW) !
kthxbye.
