[theora-dev] Slideshow with Ken-Burns Effect

[yorn at gmx.net]

> Hmm, that is nice, although I see nothing on the website itself using ff
> 3.0.4 (I had to cut and paste the video file from the page source then dl
> with wget).

True, me neither. Ok, it's just a demo - so ..

> 
> I will have to add this so called Ken Burns effect to LiVES - actually I
> have already been doing this by resizing, panning and then trimming the
> center, I had no idea it had a name !

This effect is used by apple for their slideshows ;-). As I use linux and mac I thought it would be a nice to have.

> 
> Whilst on the subject of LiVES, please note that LiVES 0.9.9.4 was
> released
> a few days ago and it has the previously mentioned support for instant
> opening of ogg/theora files. So I hope you will all go out and test this !

The purpose of the Ogg Video Tools is to have a number of command line tools, that could easily be used on the server side with not having a hundred cross references to other packages. A few other tools I am working on is a resizer (to match a given widthxheight format -> resizing and inserting borders, if needed), a tool to create easy thumbnails etc.  

So I think, using LiVES is more focused to be used on the desktop, isn't it!?


- Yorn