Hello back!

I've finally bought a firewire connector for my Sony trv-350 digital camera (usb connector doesn't work with Linux and firewire should deliver best quality image).

Software -I know- to capture from the camera:

a) Kino: I used it for my first capture. I am not sure what settings should I set. Sometimes I have to close and start kino again because the sound was distorted when playing the video.

b) VLC: I don't know how to set this program to be able to capture through firewire. Any help will be very welcome.

c) Kdenlive: I've installed it from Slacky.eu (with all the dependencies) but it doesn't start. If I try to start it from CL it displays the following message:

kdenlive: error while loading shared libraries: libmlt++.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

What should I do to make it start?

d) Cinelerra: I didn't try it yet. I've installed it. First run it asked me to type something as root "echo...fffffff...". Is this an error?

I will really appreciate any help and/or advice on how to set and use this programs to capture best quality possible.


Thank you!
Glore2002.-

install that file ("libmlt++"); i think there should be a package with a similar name in your package manager.

no, it suggests that you open a terminal, enter su and then enter what you have to type as root.

does that help?

The Slackware name for this package is 'mlt++'
one example here (Slackware 12)
http://repository.slacky.eu/slackwar...a/mlt++/0.2.2/

Regards

I use dvgrab and it produces good output, it's part of kino really:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=14103

You're right. Good program to capture. At first I tried to start it without plugging my camera and it didn't start. Isn't it there any other way to capture while seeing what I am capturing? Any tip or command line you use to capture will be appreciated. For instance, Do you capture in AVI or what format you choose?

Thanks again my friend,
Glore2002.-

I've installed all the dependencies from Slacky.eu (Slackware 12.1). This includes:

mlt++-0.3.0-i486-1as and mlt-0.3.0-i486-1as

But is shows that error message when trying to start it. Any tip?

Thank you!
Glore2002.-

Just wondering which version of Kino you tried? The www.slackbuilds.org version points to an older one, but you can easily just edit the file to point to 1.3.1.


Oops, Kino is upto 1.3.2 now. These things are hard to keep up with


About Cinelerra, was it something to do with shmmax? SHMMAX is the maximum size of shared memory any program can use. On my system, which I haven't touched, it's set as follows

$cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
33554432

Which is 32mb, Cinelerra wants 2gig.

Yes, disturbed1, you were right. Thanks for the advice.

My installed version of Kino is too old. I will try with the new one and modifying the Slackbuild in order to install it.

I am capturing with dvgrab now and it creates files of around 1Gb every 5 minutes. I've used:

with no extra parameters.

Once it finishes capturing, What would you friends suggest to convert and compress this files into reasonable size and good quality ones? Since the tape is 2hs long, resulting files after capturing will take around 24Gb!!! and I would like to be able to save them all into one or at most two 4.7Gb DVDs.

Thank you!

Glore2002.-

Kino has built in scripts for mjpegtools' mpeg2enc. I personally use mencoder with a few filters piped into mpeg2enc, or some of the native mjpegtools filters (yuvmedianfilter, y4mdenoise). At first the command lines can get quite confusing though.

Besides Kino's export scripts, devede seems to be popular for some people. There's also winff, and a good link here - http://www.videohelp.com/tools/secti...ux-video-tools

You can see what you're capturing on the camera video screen (they all have one), for the output formats try running 'dvgrab --help' or 'man dvgrab', I don't remember the options right now and don't have it currently installed.

Thanks again. Yes, I use my videocamera screen to see what I am capturing. I like dvgrab. I've used it twice these last two days and it worked perfectly well. Good advice!

Thanks again,
Glore2002.-