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Wanted

Please, please, if you are using MoviePy, consider giving feedbacks on:

• Installation and compilation bugs (the sooner whe have tested all the distributions, the better).
• User experience, what worked well, not well, what was completely buggy, what kind of functionalities could be useful.

What is coming

Very soon:

• The sound module is improved to reduce latencies and memory usage: the sound is generated in parrallel when playing the videos (threading), it can be generated in parrallel (multiprocessing on different CPUs) when writing the video down. The use of temporary wav files is also improved.
• A few name changes to improve consistency, while we still can.

In writing:

• the sound is streamed in large video files rather than loaded in the memory
• the sound is represented as floats in [0,1] instead of 8-16-32-bit values, and only converted back when rendering.

In study:

• Ditching OpenCV, at least its video writing and reading functionalities, which seem to cause many problems. Studying the possibility of replacing it with a lightweight module like pipeffmpeg.