On Tuesday 15 November 2016 06:08:44 Victor A. Stoichita wrote: > Hi Gene, > > > Camera is a Sony Digital Hi-8 Handycam, firewire interface. > > Raw video is bulky as its a digital format, full resolution of > > 720x480. so its close to 6 gigabytes a running minute when > > captured over the firewire port. > > > > The only movie editor we have, that can also control this camera > > for start/stop/capture etc, is kino. No other movie prosessing > > utility we have has ever been in the same county as a firewire > > port > > Did you try dvgrab? https://packages.debian.org/en/wheezy/dvgrab > That’s what I use in commandline to capture Raw DV from my camera > over firewire. I have an oldish Panasonic DV camera. Dvgrab knows > perfectly how to start/stop it. I think dvgrab actually has some > link to kino or the other way round. > > > Web submission site at aliexpress.com has no clue what to do > > with a a raw-dv file and refuses to take it as an > > evidence submission. > > > > Kino, as in running on a fully uptodate wheezy, apparently can't > > find ffmpeg to make the conversion when I attempt to export > > this 1 minutes worth of raw-dv format video. ffmpeg and all > > its friends are installed. But in kino, the whole page of mpeg4 > > options is ghosted out. > > To convert from DV to mpeg4 you can use avidemux. It’s available > on debian-multimedia.org, but it’s also easy to build it yourself > if you don’t want to add a repo. Instructions here: > http://www.avidemux.org/admWiki/doku.php?id=build:install_2.6 > There’s an option to build directly a deb file. That’s what I use. > Note that currently only the Qt interface seems to work on Jessie > (GTK one segfaults at startup at least for me). Avidemux comes > with its own implementation of ffmpeg. IIRC you must build and > install its plugins too if you want mpeg4 conversion. > > In avidemux, the settings I use to get an acceptable mp4 for the > web are: MPEG4-AVC for the video, AAC for audio, and of course MP4 > as a container. > > I hope it helps. Good luck! > > Victor
The last time I looked at dvgrab, it had no camera controls, but I'll have to admit that was several years ago. But can it edit? kino can. Odd, I can't find it in the tde menu's, but synaptic says it is installed, but no docs. So I turned on the camera, and ran it from the cli. I found the camera, and generated a file, but it never started the camera in playback mode. Ack the manpage it needed a -i option. And I see that Dan Dennedy wrote both, so its possible that kino uses dvgrab to do the capture, Interesting. And you, Victor, should look at kino. :) Thanks. 0Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
