GNEVE v.0.2 released on Savannah based on MLT framework

Updated GNU Emacs Video Editor mode v.0.2 was released by Martin Howse on Savannah CVS and GNEVE homepage based on MLT framework.





This update tries to stop dependency on mplayer and avidemux.

New backend service provider is MLT framework: "MLT is an open source multimedia framework, designed and developed for television broadcasting. It provides a toolkit for broadcasters, video editors, media players, transcoders, web streamers and many more types of applications. The functionality of the system is provided via an assortment of ready to use tools, xml authoring components, and an extendible plug-in based API."

Happy Editing...

GNEVE in action demo video watched from 19 countries

Some thought GNEVE is just a joke, some started old-school Emacs vs vi flame war, some thinks we are crazy Hungarians (Martin Howse is from the UK...) but most serious people gave us rich feedback and support the idea that GNU Emacs is a good platform for video editing.

GNEVE in action video viewers came from countries below

Here is the list of countries that watched GNEVE in action demo video in descending order. 30% of our visitors are from the USA.

United States, Hungary, Finland, China, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia, France, Portugal, Sweden, Brazil, Canada, Italy, Austria, Spain, India, Bulgaria, Netherlands, Ukraine.

Historical background of video editing and EDL

Non-linear EDL based video editing started on a PDP-11 hardware with a RT-11 operating system controlled solution in 1971 as a product called CMX 600. Emacs started also on a PDP-11 by Richard Stallman as a collection of Teco macros in 1975.

Company hostnames that some viewers of GNEVE in action video come from

Interesting hostnames of GNEVE in action video viewers:

cnc group zhejiang province network, comcast business communications inc., chinanet-zj jiaxing , ode network, deutsche telekom ag, elisa oyj, nintendo of america, road runner holdco llc, tele2 telecom services gmbh, andrews & arnold ltd, applied research associates, arcor ag, bell canada, chinanet fujian province network, cisco systems inc., cncgroup hebei province network, cox communications, earthlink inc., ericsson network systems inc., fox technologies ab, massachusetts institute of technology, medical information technology inc., morgan stanley group inc., motorola, nokia group networks, nyc bridged circuits, oulu telephone company, performance systems international inc., siesmic micro technology inc, smarter living inc, softlayer technologies inc., sun microsystems inc, t-mobile deutschland gmbh, teknor microsystemes inc, telus communications inc., the student union of helsinki university of technology, universitaet wuerzburg, university of michigan academic affairs, university of minnesota, university of turku, verizon internet services inc., vodafone portugal

Gift video for GNEVE supporters

Old-school 3d animation of Erno Rubik's cube on PDP-11 A gift video link from GNEVE team to GNEVE supporters.

Thank you all who support GNEVE, a GNU Emacs Video Editor mode. Our activities are not against any present video editor since you will still need your fancy Avid or other video editor if you want to use advanced fading, dissolving or other video effects.

gneve.el is about advanced EDL-based raw video content editing using the best text editor yet in the market, GNU Emacs, since a version control and other important features are already present in it and GPLv3+ licensing ensures long term cooperative and competitive motivation.

Satellite Map of interesting GNEVE feedbacks

Thank you again, for your feedback.

Satellite map of qualified feedbacks:


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GNEVE team accepted that most people do not understand GNU Emacs Video Editor mode concept. We started writing some good manuals. Please be patient, we got some important feedbacks, including VLC, GNU coding standards, bugfixing, new feautre implementation.

Please do not forget that gneve.el is still an alpha stage proof of concept Emacs mode, only 500 lines of Emacs code. We basically want to keep GNEVE a simple, well integrated GNU Emacs mode that is the best DV and HDTV editing application.

We are also testing audio integration with simple but precise background music mixing with fading capabilities, a notation format update is also going on. Sox will be the audio mixer.

We also examined networking cluster integration, it is not a focus at the moment, but gneve.el will work fine on video clusters, main focus is Intel or Sun CPU, Gb eth, 16+ GB RAM, 2+ cores, SATA disk array, GNU variant operating system, Cisco network devices.
Link summary:

Savannah task
GNEVE homepage
GNEVE WebMa online devel branch

GNEVE - GNU Emacs Video Editor mode in action demo

Thank you for all the feedbacks on GNEVE we see that most people cannot imagine how GNEVE works in reality. We help them with this short video on GNEVE in action.



GNEVE focuses on editing. We found GNU Emacs the best text editor in the market. Edit Decision List editing is text editing, time codes inserted from Emacs controlled media player. Rendering means that GNEVE generates an avidemux script from EDL.