First, a note on consumers. When you start the script, the main menu asks
you to choose a consumer. A consumer is like a viewer, but it could also
write to a stream/file. The "SDL" consumer is the popular Simple DirectMedia
-Layer audio and video output. The "Westley" consumer generates an XML
+Layer audio and video output. The "xml" consumer generates an XML
representation of the service network. That can be played directly due to the
-westley producer plugin. See docs/westley.txt for more information. The
+XML producer plugin. See docs/mlt-xml.txt for more information. The
"MainConcept DV" consumer refers to the proprietary MLT plugin required to
-use MLT with MainConcept DV, DVCPro, and MPEG codecs. "/dev/dv1394" refers
+use MLT with MainConcept DV, DVCPro, and MPEG codecs. "/dev/dv1394/0" refers
to a device file for transmitting DV over FireWire using the Linux dv1394 kernel
module. The "BlueFish444" consumer is another proprietary plugin to use
the BlueFish444 manufactured SDI video/audio output cards with MLT.
This image can be a 16 bit PGM (grayscale bitmap) or the luma channel of
any video producer. A number of high quality wipes can be downloaded from
http://mlt.sf.net/. It also performs field rendering.
+ The second wipe demonstrates the ability to control the direction of the
+ wipe as well.
Obscure
A music bed sound track can be mixed with a video. The sound track of the
video clip has a "floating" amplitude normalisation filter applied.
- Typically, audio nornmalisation applies a constant gain factor across the
+ Typically, audio normalisation applies a constant gain factor across the
entire duration of an audio segment from a single source where the
gain factor is automatically determined by anaylsing the maximum "power"
or peak levels. However, in news production, a popular requirement is to
Slideshow
This demo requires any number of JPEG images with the extension ".jpg"
- in a subdirectory named "Scotland."
+ in a subdirectory named "photos."
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