I need a video editor like Kino, so that I can edit and trim some video to make it shorter. My videos are from a digital camera, and they are in .MOV format. Kino does not support that format. What can I do?

"mencoder input.mov -oac pcm -ovc raw -o output.avi"?

This format is well supported by Avidemux2.

I did that with mplayer mencoder, and it worked. Thanks. The AVI movie I have now is about 25 times bigger than the MOV movie. After I edit it, what's a format to convert it to? I am looking for a format that will play in most web browsers without extra plugins that people do not already have, and a format that is compressed, so it is not so big. I haven't found a way to convert to SWF flash in Linux yet.

MOV is a container, the video is actually encoded in MPEG-4 format, the FourCC is usually set to DivX - for compatibility reasons. MPEG-4 is a lossy codec, meaning recoding is inevitable loss in quality. The audio may be encoded in ULAW, this is something you want to recode. The bottom line is you should leave the video alone, recode audio to mp3 (or ogg) and use a common container as avi (or ogm with ogg audio). As I mentioned before, Avidemux2 is a great tool for this. But you can use mencoder if you want to.

I finally got Avidemux2 installed after much hell. I have no idea about most of the things you are talking to me about. What should I convert the huge AVI file to, so that it plays in most web browsers without being huge files?

Do not convert anything without a good reason. First, load your mov file. Then look at it's properties. Pay attention to audio and video codecs used. If video shows something like: Codec 4CC DIVX - set video to COPY (you do not want to re-code it). You want audio to be mp3, so set it to LAME (assuming it is not mp3 already). Finally, choose FORMAT - AVI. Now save the file. Done.

I want to edit .mov files that I get from my Olympus camera and I've tried the mencoder command.
I now have a .avi file from the .mov but, when I open it in avidemux, I just get audio, no picture.
This is the command I used: mencoder /home/susemama/Pictures/PC071526.MOV -oac pcm -ovc raw -o /home/susemama/Pictures/PC071526.avi

And this is the message I got:

MEncoder 1.0rc1-SUSE Linux 10.0 (i686)-Packman-4.0.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (Family: 15, Model: 3, Stepping: 4)
CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0xa4872e
Quicktime/MOV file format detected.
VIDEO: [jpeg] 320x240 24bpp 15.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:7 fourcc:0x6765706A size:320x240 fps:15.00 ftime:=0.0667
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 7867 Hz, 1 ch, u8, 62.9 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 7867->7867)
Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
==========================================================================
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffmjpeg] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MJPEG decoder)
==========================================================================
VDec: vo config request - 320 x 240 (preferred colorspace: Planar 422P)
VDec: using Planar 422P as output csp (no 1)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
Writing header...
ODML: vprp aspect is 4:3.
Writing header...
ODML: vprp aspect is 4:3.
Pos: 32.0s 480f ( 0%) 439.56fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.067 [18432:125]
Flushing video frames
Writing index...
Writing header...
ODML: vprp aspect is 4:3.

Video stream: 18432.000 kbit/s (2304000 B/s) size: 73728000 bytes 32.000 secs 480 frames

Audio stream: 125.872 kbit/s (15734 B/s) size: 503488 bytes 32.000 secs


MPlayer is the only player that can play this .avi file with both pictures and sound while my other players just have sound, no pictures.
Mplayer complains: New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong. Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.tff).

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Q:
What text file does it want?
What does text have to do with showing the pictures?
I've tried a search for the file named, subfont but got no results.

i get something similiar to this every time i run mplayer, but as long as i've got video and audio,i don't care. thinking it has something to do with subtitles, which i could never read quickly enough in the movies.

I think you really mean, something like:

mencoder input.mov -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=48:cbr -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4:vbitrate=750:vhq -o output.avi

See: "MPlayer and MEncoder (DVD/Movie/Video/MP3 Player and Encoder)." at

http://linuxhelp.150m.com/installs/mplayer.htm

for a good article on how to compile and use MPlayer/MEncoder

Actually, it looks like I read the article wrongly.

If you want to edit the file, most editing tools need raw video and pcm.

So unSpawn was correct.

Does anyone know much about editing with mencoder?

Does anyone know much about editing with mencoder?

Any links?

i just googled and this is the first entry

http://bro1.centras.info/mencoder_editing.html

i had been trying to clip a segment from a video with mplayer without success using -dumpstream. mplayer told me where to start and stop, so mencoder was the ticket. i did have to add some parms, but i was prompted each time.

Almost useless.