Hi friends, I have not been doing video stuff for a few years, but now as a retiree I wanted to digitize my old videos from magnetic tapes. I have a neat gizmo that creates an .avi file from VHS video and stereo inputs on a micro sd card. The created .avi file plays well with vlc.
I used to have an old desktop with Fedora-3 and then CentOS, but I retired that old friend, and have now a nice little Fitlet2 machine that I can recommend to anyone. It is almost as small as a smart phone, and I use my old keyboard and LCD screen with it. It runs Gentoo linux with my custom twm window manager. I have installed most of the stuff from my old desktop, including mjpegtools, ffmpeg, etc. on it. Here is my issue and request for help. I try to make some very basic editing of the digitized .avi file, but ran into a problem. I studied my older posts, notes, but am still stuck. It looks like the.avi file created with the digitizing gizmo is too sophisticated for lavplay or glav - see below. Do I need to trans- code the .avi file, and how? Thank you for your attention - Janos As a side note: could you please add another email address to this mailing list. It is the address on the mail server running on my Fitlet machine - ja...@andraslinux.jgklinux.jankom.net DETAILS: janos@andraslinux ~/tmp $ lavplay -p S -v 2 ezcap0001.avi lavplay2.2.1 lavtools version 2.2.1 --DEBUG: [lavplay] Opening video file ezcap0001.avi ... **ERROR: [lavplay] Error opening ezcap0001.avi janos@andraslinux ~/tmp $ file ezcap0001.avi ezcap0001.avi: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 800 x 592, 30.00 fps, video: XviD, audio: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (stereo, 44100 Hz) janos@andraslinux ~/tmp $ ffprobe ezcap0001.avi ffprobe version 4.4.2 Copyright (c) 2007-2021 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 11.3.0 (Gentoo 11.3.0 p4) ... Input #0, avi, from 'ezcap0001.avi': Duration: 01:48:51.67, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 967 kb/s Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg4 (Advanced Simple Profile) (XVID / 0x44495658), yuv420p, 800x592 [SAR 1:1 DAR 50:37], 896 kb/s, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 30 tbn, 30 tbc Stream #0:1: Audio: mp3 (U[0][0][0] / 0x0055), 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 64 kb/s -- Janos G. Komaromi sent it NOT from iPhone nor Google facebook, instagram, viber, snapchat, twitter, #@*~| etc. - neither of those https://jgklinux.jankom.net/ _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list Mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
