Smile – a great photo show software for Linux

November 11, 2009 in *buntu, Photos | 12 comments

For long I’ve been trying to find something to create photo shows with Linux. So far Cinelerra has been the best choice but being.. well, not as simple as I’d hope it to be, I haven’t been able to create any photo shows. Then I found Smile – and here’s a result from playing maybe 10 minutes. Took some random photos from my travels.

It also allows me to add audio tracks (which I didn’t do – copyright stuff and didn’t spend time looking for Free music yet..), video clips etc etc. PERFECT!!

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Smile Homepage
Gaspa isn’t maintaining the package any more – I’d so much appreciate it if someone would be able to take over the package and take it all the way to Debian/Ubuntu.

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  1. ethana2’s avatar

    ethana2 on November 12, 2009 at 12:33 am

    As the owner of an Ubuntu Dell and a Droid, I’d like to point out that a “Linux” app could be anything. I gather it’s not for WebOS, Maemo, or Android, but is it KDE, GNOME, Java/Swing, wxWidgets….??

  2. ethana2’s avatar

    ethana2 on November 12, 2009 at 12:40 am

    I see screenshots of a KDE app, but I don’t know if it’s actually this one because everything on their site is in, like, French..

  4. taiebot’s avatar

    taiebot on November 12, 2009 at 2:09 am

    You should see his other software this guy is coding on is own and it s pretty good
    i like smile and 2mandvd
    http://2mandvd.tuxfamily.org/

  5. mas’s avatar

    mas on November 12, 2009 at 2:57 am

    Smile is already packaged for debian by Christian Marillat and is available from the debian-multimedia repository. Of course, it i not in main yet.

  6. Risto H. Kurppa’s avatar

    Risto H. Kurppa on November 12, 2009 at 4:56 pm

    Thansk for your comments & questions everyone!

    @ethana2: Yes, it’s a Qt/KDE software although it does look a bit weird with the black menu bar. And yes – the web site is in French which I found also a bit annoying. I think this app has a lot of potential and I’d like to see more people working on it, a proper community to help the author.

    @ethana2: yes, I could’ve specified a bit more but on the other hand I don’t know why would it be limited to KDE/Gnome and why wouldn’t it be possible to port to maemo/webos/android. My experience, as a Openmoko Freerunner owner is that.. well, if an app runs on Linux, it requires a lot to be able to tell it for sure doesn’t run on another distribution / mobile environment / something. I dont have experience like that, so I just call it ‘a Linux app’ :)

    @taiebot: I did actually try to install 2mandvd yesterday and in the end it did install but I wasn’t able to run it: 2mandvd command didn’t exist and so on.. I’d really like to try it!

    @mas: ok, great, thanks for the information. How does the debian-multimedia work, will it end to main later?

  7. mas’s avatar

    mas on November 13, 2009 at 9:35 am

    debian-multimedia.org is like Ubuntu, it probably won’t get into Debian unless you can motivate the maintainer to move it there.

  9. taiebot’s avatar

    taiebot on November 15, 2009 at 3:37 pm

    Have you got all the dependency to install it?

    QT4
    ffmpegthumbnailer (http://code.google.com/p/ffmpegthumbnailer/)
    ffmpeg >= 0.5.0
    Sox
    Mplayer
    Mencoder
    dvdauthor
    transcode
    Mjpegtools
    Netpbm
    mkisofs
    XINE
    perl

  10. Risto H. Kurppa’s avatar

    Risto H. Kurppa on November 15, 2009 at 3:48 pm

    @taiebot: no, I guess something’s missing. If I’m first able to create a nice slideshow with SMILE then I’ll try to create a DVD with 2mandvd and will see the dependencies :)

  11. gaspa’s avatar

    gaspa on November 30, 2009 at 5:02 pm

    Hi, after that post, I’ve been motivated to build another version in my ppa.
    I’d be happy if someone could give it a fast test.

    Bye!
    (ah, note aside: don’t use my ppa for other packages than smile, I’m setting up a “stable” ppa, but the default one has a lot of mess, and a lot of test-only package)

  12. ostrov’s avatar

    ostrov on December 2, 2009 at 6:08 pm

    Thank you,
    very interesting article