VLC Team Announces Video Editor In the Works

eldavojohn writes "Despite news that VLC might not have anyone to work on the Mac release, Lifehacker brings word of a video editor that the VLC team is working on dubbed VideoLAN Media Creator. It hasn't been released yet (git clone git://github.com/VLMC/vlmc.git) but a pre-release is due out soon."

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Finally

[Anonymous Coward]

I've been waiting for this for a long time. I find it frustrating that I can play basically any video format at any resolution, while not being able to transcode. My computer obviously understands the video files, so why can't I take an .mpeg file and easily save it to quicktime format? All the open source video editing/transcoding tools are trash right now. A VLC video editor is going to be really awesome.

Re:Yeah yeah! Oh, yeah!

[adpe]

I'm not OP and I'm love and use linux exclusively, but I have to agree with him. I've used about every video editor there is and (compared to other OSes standards) even kdenlive is a piece of shit. It has most basic features, and even some advanced ones, but at least on my three machines, its crashing left and right.

I personally think it's because of the sad state that linux multimedia subsystems are in (oss/alsa/pulseaudio/whatever kde comes with up next), but whatever it is, linux video editing is nowhere near windows or mac counterparts.

Re:Finally

[Midnight Thunder]

That said, I haven't been overly impressed with its performance. Strange crashes, glitchy files, etc.

Yup, it uses more CPU than it needs to, but at least it provides the support for various video formats that my files are in. Some of these issues are to blame on ffmpeg and others are purely on VLC. What would really be nice is if someone could implement some codecs using blocks [wikipedia.org], even if it is at this point purely to find out if this a) makes a notable difference in performance and b) provides code that is still cross-platform.