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As the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced in a press release, now could yet proprietary userland portion of the video driver of the Raspberry Pi be under a free license.

As emphasized Alex Bradbury, lead developer for Linux at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, in the press release, so that the entire ARM code for the device is open source under open source licenses available. Was therefore, he explains, with the Broadcom BCM2835 is the first manufacturer of a system based on ARM multimedia SoC that it consistently provides open source drivers.

The code Broadcom now under the 3-clause BSD license published implemented, EGL, OpenGL ES, OpenVG and OpenMAX. Bradbury sees beside the philosophical profit of freedom the ability to extend the code as the main prize. So you can now try for example, incorporate the Wayland EGL EGL client and server support. The developers aim to further that vchiq messaging system to get into the mainline Linux kernel.
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The new version of the universal media transcoder Hrizopea. In fact it is the “engine” to which a module adds support for command line programs – coders. Is not difficult to guess, it’s all written in PyQt. Project code is distributed under license LGPL.

Now support for the following encoders:

• Recoding sound: Aften, Flac, Flake, Lame, MAC, Musepack, ogg, Wavpack.
• Videos: ffmpeg2theora, several modules implement about 75% (!) MEncoder-functional as well.
• Graphics and documents: Convert, uniconvertor, PDFutilites.

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The new version of the video editor OpenShot, allowing: resize, watermark, images, 3D animated titles using Blender, do pruning, digital zoom, and more.

Innovations:

• new 3D animation: Realistic Earth, Exploding Text, Dissolving Text;
• New effects: Sharpness, Vignette, Lens Correction and more than 10;
• new transition effects;

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SIGRAND (Novosibirsk) has completed the assembly of the new IP-camera series. IP-cameras are made with two types of sensors, which provide video HD (1280×720, 30 frames / s) and Full HD (1920×1080, 25 frames / second).

Cameras have a built-in switch to two Ethernet ports. Port supports Pass-Through PoE, allowing you to connect multiple cameras and special LED-spotlights one circuit powered from a single port Ethernet Switch:

• series connection circuit cameras ;
• series connection circuit cameras and projectors ;
• Photo 18 cameras included one chain (1.8 Mb) ;
• up to 5 cameras in a single chain of 100 meters between them.

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A regression bug in the Intel graphics driver causes the Linux kernel 5.3 with an Intel specific drivers significantly more power than the version 3.4.

The kernel developers James Bottomley has been a bug in the Linux kernel 3.5 arrest, which means that a system consumes significantly more power than its predecessor, with kernel 3.4. Blame for this regression is a patch for the DRM drivers (Direct Rendering Manager) of the Intel i915 graphics chip. The introduction of locking via semaphores should lead under favorable circumstances, even to the fact that less power is vebraucht. The opposite was the case during the operation of an X server on the test system, only an increase had the power to one watt to seven watts results in an X server used with the faulty driver with 14 watts more than doubled.
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Chris Wilson (Chris Wilson) in the X.Org mailing list announced the release of the video driver xf86-video-intel version 2.20.0.

SNA – a new architecture rendering acceleration, developed by Intel for server drivers X.Org. The new architecture is designed to increase the rendering speed compared to the previous architecture, UXA, as developed by Intel. The new architecture is developed last year for a series of chips Sandy Bridge, but it should yield acceleration for all chips supported by the driver xf86-video-intel.

In this version of the driver architecture of SNA is not enabled by default, but is compiled in the driver and does not require a separate assembly, indicating the driver option – enable-sna. Now for the inclusion of a new architecture is in / etc/X11/xorg.conf to specify:
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June 26, 2012 released new version of LiVES, Brazilian video editor for UNIX-like systems.

LiVES lets the user edit the video in real time, it can be controlled over a network, it can broadcast a video stream to another copy of LiVES, and uses the plug-ins for effects creation, encoding and playback.

The latest version has added support for the rapid discovery mpegts-clips, backup and recovery are now working much faster. Rendering bugs have been fixed trigger effects, withdrawal, preview in file open dialog box, pad-audio. The code was cleaned up timer is enabled experimental support for the analysis of video, data processing and plug-ins for sound generation. Also fixed some minor bugs.
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The developers of audio-video player MPlayer decided it was time for another release. After several years of release candidates, and prerelease, they claim that it was time to follow the example of other projects and deliver major versions of once a week to once a month. So version 1.0 will not be just 1.1.

Important changes and features:

• MPlayer 1.1 is compatible with FFmpeg 0.11.
• New meynteyner gmplayer (GUI for the X11) a lot of bugs fixed.
• Added support for more subtitle formats (including Blu-ray, DVB, DVB closed-caption).
• Revised-vo gl, including the withdrawal of the 10-bit video, basic (but usable) support for OpenGL ES.
• Improved support for SDL, now this mode is convenient for OSX, especially on PowerPC.
• Improved handling of network failures, MPlayer will try to restore a much stronger bond.
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SMPlayer – a complete graphical environment for the media player MPlayer, which provides the basic features like MPlayer (video, DVD and VCD), and the more advanced features like support for filters for MPlayer, Subtitle auto search, and other properties characteristic of a graphical environment.

What’s new in version 0.8.0:

• added to the editor toolbar, it is now possible to choose which buttons and controls will be visible on toolbars;
• new video filters: banding (gradfun), blur and sharpness;

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While Kdenlive like so many independent projects will be developed as a hobby, now is one of the developers are paid to work for two months undisturbed in the video editor. Donations are sought for it now.

Kdenlive is a video editor with editing functions, based on the MLT video framework. The program is integrated in KDE and boasts many features that have been around now for the professional interest in them. Although Kdenlive was reputed to be quite unstable, but were with the versions 0.8.2 and 0.8.2.1 in late 2011 many of the problems fixed. Seth Kenlon, whose company uses the editor professionally, Kdenlive runs Linux better, more reliable and far less expensive than proprietary applications on Mac OS X.
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