Comment 7 for bug 643151

Jonathan Thomas (jonoomph) wrote on 2012-01-29: #4

"Any thoughts on whether openshot-render is needed anymore? MLT already contains a powerful command line tool called 'melt', which can render openshot XML files, and those XML files can be exported from OpenShot. Anyone disagree with me? =)"

Yes, openshot-render is needed. See my comments 19 and 21 in Bug #729359.

For those of us with lots of small projects, it would be extremely useful to be able to do something like (shell script pseudocode follows):

for P in *.osp:
  if file $P.webm does not exist (or is older than $P):
    openshot-render --outputfile=$P.webm ... $P

But this is impossible when openshot-render does not terminate properly!