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From: darren kirby <bulliver@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question about editing a video file
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:48:08
Message-Id: 200511141742.21724.bulliver@badcomputer.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Question about editing a video file by Michael Sullivan
1 quoth the Michael Sullivan:
2 > My computer has a Hauppage WinTV-PVR-250 card in it and I've recorded
3 > some video (my wife's brother, my wife, and I playing Super Smash
4 > Brothers) and I'd like to make a video with highlights from it. I
5 > recorded the video using WinTV2000's (at least I think that's what it
6 > was called) recording feature. I emerged kino and tried to open the
7 > video file (the file claims to be an mpeg) for editing in kino, but kino
8 > says "Invalid file specified", yet gmplayer can play it just fine. Why
9 > is this, and is there a way around it?
10
11 The Kino website (http://www.kinodv.org/article/static/2) says that kino can
12 only work with raw dv or AVI format for editing.
13
14 MPG is an export option, not an import option afaik...
15
16 Maybe cinelerra can do what you need?
17 -d
18
19 PS: I used kino about a year ago but found it was still too unstable, so
20 unfortunately I edit video on my Mac still. Perhaps it is improved now
21 though.
22 --
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24 "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."
25 - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972