0.13.3 Release : ... we shall never (sur)render

The PiTiVi team is proud to announce the second release in the unstable 0.13 PiTiVi series.

Due to its dependency on GStreamer, The PiTiVi team strongly recommends users have all official latest gstreamer libraries and plugins installed for the best user experience.

Title is from a quote by Winston Churchill “We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

Features of this release

• Fix rendering failures
• UI beautifications
• Switch to themeable ruler
• Speed optimisations
• Show the project name in the window title

Requirements

• gstreamer >= 0.10.24
• gst-python >= 0.10.16
• gnonlin >= 0.10.13
• pygtk >= 2.14.0
• Python >= 2.5
• zope-interface
• python setuptools
• pygoocanvas (http://live.gnome.org/GooCanvas)
• dbus and HAL for capture support

Contributors

Ranked by commits:

39 Alessandro Decina
32 Brandon Lewis
22 Edward Hervey
2 Hendrik Richter
2 Jorge González
2 Michael Terry
1 Antón Méixome
1 Claude Paroz
1 Daniel Nylander
1 Petr Kovar

Download

PiTiVi source tarballs are available on gnome FTP: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pitivi/0.13/

Packages for Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) are available on this PPA repository.

Information and Feedback

• Information for users and developers can be found on the PiTiVi website : http://www.pitivi.org/
• Comments and feedback are welcome.
  • Mailing-list : pitivi-pitivi@lists.sourceforge.net
  • PiTiVi bug-tracker : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=pitivi

Bugs Fixed

• 520653 : pitivi.desktop fixes and more
• 575311 : clips appear to be duplicated at high zoom levels when the timeline cursor is near the edge
• 576576 : not possible to add clip at end of timeline
• 584170 : Video Playback Fails, Without Program Crash
• 589809 : [performance] zooming (even without thumbnails/waveforms) is slow
• 590114 : rendering never finishes
• 590153 : Zoom to optimum level when loading projects
• 590203 : image hang during playback (auriga)
• 590440 : Strings not marked for translation in check.py
• 591571 : Removing a keyframe is not easy
• 591616 : crashes when creating a new project after loading a project
• 591617 : regression: centering on playhead when zooming broke
• 593736 : play button is empty
• 594114 : Sound curves not taken into account when rendering
• 594311 : Clicking the timeline leads to a TypeError
• 575975 : project-centric window title
• 582363 : huge tabs the size of a hallway
• 594181 : playhead/seeking broken by latest changes to factory cache in singledecodebin
• 594396 : " save as " confuses pitivi; subsequent saves are on the original project file

...and more. See the list of bugs fixed on Bugzilla