On Thursday 14 August 2008, Jeff Spaleta wrote: >On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Here, nothing would import video through the firewire port, even if I >> just hit play on the camera and didn't try remotely controlling the >> player from the computer (which didn't work either). Apparently the >> firewire port does work enough that you can see the camera's been >> recognised, if you look through the system logs. > >We should look at this more closely...probably in another thread. It >might be a kernel regression..or it could be some sort of acl issue >associated with the new authorization scheme that PolicyKit/ConsoleKit >uses for device access. We need to compare notes..but not in this >thread. > >And even if I imported > >> video via Windows, then tried to make use of the already captured files >> in Linux, I got nowhere. And adding every available codec didn't help, >> things, at all. >> >> Again, re-rendering lossy compressed video is to be avoided at all >> costs, it's seriously detrimental to quality. And usually would be >> completely avoidable, anyway, as most editing is "cuts only" which >> doesn't need re-rendering, just interrupting the streams at the right >> moment, and joining two streams together. > >pitivi knows how to deal with dv as source material.. and it does >basic clip sequencing and chopping. I've use it to sequence a couple >of things shot from the panasonic minidv camcorder that I have, and >then used audacity to edit the sound track separately, then mixed the >two together into a final theora video with vorbis audio. A topic for >another thread. > >-jef But, it cannot import directly from the firewire, so without a working dvgrab, that is about as functional as those famous appendages on the tummy of a boar hog. FWIW, I did get kino-1.3.1 built and running, the showstopper was in frame.h in the ffmpeg sub src tree. So I'm a happy camper again & still using F8. I'll email Dan, the edits were very simple and I'd include them here, but the Lawyers would have a cow or 10. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Fats Loves Madelyn. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
