I actually wanted to pass on this after a look into the demo. Warping from place to place in 3D just doesn't cut it anymore for me. I'm about to reconsider.

I’m working on a more technical article with all the nitty-gritty for those of you interested

If you stumble upon this, Liam (or anybody else reading here), I would love to get a pointer.

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I played (tried to) some Level 9 adventures back then. I think it included Snowball (1983), Lords of Time (1983), Return to Eden (1984). I don't think I got far in any. Still have them on cassette somewhere I guess.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySo what? I don't need to know that. Have it pretend. I don't know what the heck LibreOffice does to a spreadsheet file when I save it--it's not my problem.

Remuxing should be like ten times faster, so you cannot really pretend here.

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Quoting: AnzaAvidemux has been mentioned already once in the discussion and it has options for copying the video and audio codec as is and it did save the file very quickly.

Unfortunately, it's one of those programs mentioned not being in the Debian repositories at the moment. I remember the user interface as not too nice, but that was... quote some time ago.

Quoting: AnzaThat I don't know for sure that if you actually have to re-encode anything if you cut between key-frames. At least in theory it could leave the partial stream as is and then reconstruct new key frame at cut point.

I worked in that area 20 years ago, when MPEG-2 was the thing to use and MPEG-4 still in the making.
Cutting at key frames ("I") should "cut it". You need to pay attention though that frames coming earlier in the actual clip might come later in the stream. If you want to have frame exact cutting, there might be frames ("B") that reference frames in the future. Ideally, the application would reencode those to I or "P" frames (only referencing earlier frames). The usual frequency of I frames was 2 per second back then, but that might have been subject to change.
As said, the knowledge is 20 years old, so it deteriorated and of course, technology has advanced.

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Quoting: CFWhitmanThis is a lot about how video codecs and containers are constructed technically rather than being against the goals of video editing software. With most video containers, it is not possible to just split a file without re-encoding it.

I'm not aware of (and I can hardly imagine) a video format that would need reencoding of more than some frames (before the cut). Remuxing is fine and should be fast.

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Quoting: razing32

Quoting: EikeA simple tool, non-crashing please, for dummies.
Please don't make me googling how I can cut something at the beginning and the end.
Cutting videos short, maybe some simple blending.
Please have "output format like input format" option.

Try Openshot
Found it easy to use to splice some videos

I tried this and succeeded cutting off the not-so-well ending of a video of my kid. (Second attempt, in first one I managed to delete the whole stuff instead of only the ending). Exporting worked, the result is fine.

What I'm severely missing is said "output format like input format" option. I think this would be suitable for a video editor.

What I'd really want is "please do not recode at all, just dump all those frames I told you I don't want".
But I guess that's just not what video editors are all about.

I tried to install other proposals from this thread (thanks for all of them!), but unfortunately found several not to be available in Debian stable at the moment (and didn't want to experiment).

But, I'm happy enough with OpenShot.

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Got my hands on the beta and the Linux version works quite well. Still some rough edges (probably on all systems), but I'm optimistic.

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Quoting: pb

Quoting: EikeActually, real cloud exclusiveness would be the death of piracy. If you never get your hands on any binaries to begin with...

Binaries always exist somewhere, so...

Of course, but it would be much more hard to get them. Before game releases, binaries exist somewhere, too, but how many games come cracked before they were released? (The question is not rhetorical, I actually don't know. I think it did happen, but not too often?)

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Quoting: pbIf this continues and if they start having exclusives, piracy will surge. Nobody wants more than 1-2 subscriptions, if any.

Actually, real cloud exclusiveness would be the death of piracy. If you never get your hands on any binaries to begin with...

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It's really more of a showcase, but fans still should play it (and obviously would anyway without me saying so :D ).

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