What are GOPchops Development Goals?
As GOPchop continues to be used for editing of MPEG2 hardware encoder streams, it’s expected that support will be needed for subtle changes in the streams produced by newer encoders. Achieving this will of course depend largely on community involvement and work by users of different pieces of hardware. Thus, a principle development goal for the GOPchop project is to review and integrate patches to improve the video format support. In addition, as the Open Source community at large achieves progress with video capture and playback, it will need good editing tools. GOPchop seeks to fill a role in this ecosystem. We wish to adopt features which make the tool more convenient for common usage, and that enable it to interface and/or interoperate better with other Open Source tools. Perhaps even more important than it’s goals are its non-goals. GOPchop should strive to do one specific task, and do it as best as possible. Other functionality should be implemented by other tools that can be use
