michaelieti / vidivox-g

part 2 project: a video player with editing capibilities on linux

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VIDIVOX PLANNING - 01.02

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FEEDBACK

Feedback from Nasser, Oct 1:

• Mute while fast forward (similar to rewind).
• Disable all speech controls until there is actually text in the text area (i.e. until there is actually something to overlay/speak).
• Hide "Cancel Speech" button till festival actually starts speaking.
• Think of a better way to communicate the Overlay button (e.g. make it clear that Overlay will commit the overlay to the video).
• Top menu is slightly obtrusive?? I mean I don't think it is but okay whatevs nasser
• Saving system is not entirely intuitive, needs to be changed

END FEEDBACK

FEATURES

• Rotate Video

• Shia La Boooof

• Convert Video to other formats

• View Layers (Some sort of visual representation of Additions made to the original file)

• View History (With some sort of diff format which contains

• Pre-Loader. When you first open the application what does it do?

• Settings and some way of saving these settings

• Cut videos (nested within Editor panel. Start and end positions (change colour of timeline)

• Stick videos together (Browse, cut straight to next video.)

• Reorder (Have a list and reorder components. Somehow will need to keep previous edits (festival etc))

• John is reskinning to allow for volume bar

END FEATURES

The video player must be able to:

• play video
• add an mp3 to the video
• add a synthetic speech overlay to the video

Must have the following controls:

GENERAL:

• open a file
• close a file

VIDEO:

• fast forward
• rewind
• play/pause
• stop

AUDIO:

• volume up
• volume down
• mute

EXTRA FEATURES:

• .srt file generation to support subtitles
• translate subtitles using Google Translate API
• choose the voice for speech synthesization
• take screenshots
• have a graphical interface for adding in subtitles e.g. on the scrollbar, such that we can choose the subtitles, edit the subtitles, or delete the subtitles at that point NOTE: possibly can use a sidebar instead
• Shia Laboeuf-ifier
• Registration page linking to paypal
• Pop-up ads because we're dicks
• Brightness controls and other video filters
• Playlist-type features (e.g. the ability to make a playlist)
• Full screen support
• Airhorn button

TOOLS WE CAN USE:

• build tools Gradle is pretty easy to use, but if Gradle isn't present on the UG4 computers, we can use ANT instead.
• JavaFX Hopefully we can get it working on UG4 and to link up with vlcj
• Git + Bitbucket THIS IS NEEDED FOR THE ASSIGNMENT ANYWAY
• SceneBuilder if needed

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

• we can create an mp3 from festival using text2wave | lame -out.mp3

GUI DESIGN:

• We will be using .css to add skins to our gui. This enables us to possibly add interchangable skins.

• Our Buttons will have 3 states. On, Off and Hovered. On will show the user they have clicked a togglable button (such as pause). Hover will show when the user has there mouse above the button. Off will show when the button is toggled off (default).

• Perhaps a dark grey or near black background would fit well with our design. With glowing buttons.

• Our video timeline scroll bar should be hoverable aswell. Much like the Youtube scroll bar.

• We will need open video and save video buttons.

• Link the resizing of the window to the resizing of the mediaviews fitview

Screen Diagram:

UML (Currently Working towards this on Refactor Branch):