Advene application download and installation

Windows binary installer

Debian package

Ubuntu (Intrepid) package

MacOS X/Intel package

Sources

Development tree (subversion)

Advene installation, documentation

Download the packaged version for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X/intel, then see the tutorial package (see below) and the advene public wiki for instructions and documentation, including known problems. Feel free to help maintaining these information through the wiki.

You can also use the new Advene forum for any question related to Advene.

Distributions

GNU/Linux

Advene 1.0 is available as a Debian/testing or Ubuntu package and as a RPM package or as sources.

Debian users may add the following line to the /etc/apt/sources.list file:
deb http://download.gna.org/advene/debian testing/
and simply type
apt-get update
apt-get install advene

Other distributions are not packaged, but Advene may be easily run from sources: the application is written in python/gtk, so does not require compilation and only depends on some packages described in the README file.

Shortcomings:

• Shot detection depends on shotdetect. Packages for Debian Testing and Ubuntu are available from the Advene repository. A RPM package is also available.

Windows

Download the windows 1.0.2 installer and execute it. Note that you do not need administrator rights to install Advene on your computer. It can be installed anywhere as a simple user.

Mac OS X

Advene runs on Mac OS X/Intel, with the X11 server.

Download the Advene .dmg image, and copy the Advene application to a convenient place (it can be the Desktop or /Applications) before running it.

Advene uses the X11 server. It is automatically started when launching Advene.

Shortcomings:

The provided installer may crash if you have previously installed gstreamer from Macports or Darwinports. In this case, you may either run Advene from its sources, or deactivate the gstreamer port.

Development platform

Development is done through the Gna! platform. From the project page you can access various tools (SVN development tree, bug tracker, etc.).

gstreamer contributions

Advene now uses the gstreamer multimedia framework as player and overall video manipulation software. We developed svgoverlay, a SVG rendering element, which is now included in gst-plugins-bad.

VLC contributions

We previously used the VLC player in the context of the Advene project. For this, we need to control the player from our Python application. We chose to implement a control API based on an existing standard, the OMG Audio/Video Stream 1.0 specification. We first implemented it as a CORBA control module for vlc, but we have since developped native python bindings for VLC.

Additionally, a SVG rendering module as well as a snapshot module have been implemented.

All these contributions are now integrated in the standard VLC tree.