[NBLUG/talk] Video 4 Linux

[Mark Street]

You might want to give kino a look.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/kino/?topic_id=256

Cinelerra is extreme....

On Fri, 30 May 2003, Scott Doty wrote:

> On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 06:40:57PM -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 16:32, Scott Doty wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 01:23:48PM -0700, Kyle Rankin wrote:
> > > > I've had good results with the cheap ATI TV Wonder VE tv capture card.  It
> > > > uses the bt848 chipset, which works fine under Linux.
> >
> > Yes although you may have to reference the docs on the module to get it
> > set to work with the proper tuner/cable box.
> >
> > That's the only problem I ran into.
> >
> > Otherwise a great capture card.
>
> After some research, I decided to just slap a capture card into my current
> workstation.  The cap card, a Hauppage WinTV DBX, arrives FedEx today.
> (This uses that bt848 chipset -- same as the ATI TV Wonder VE.  I've heard
> from multiple sources that the Brooktree chipset is the way to go under
> Linux.  The Hauppage also includes a tuner.)
>
> Video gets to my machine via a wireless 2.4 GHz video/stereo audio extender.
> This saves me from having to run something like 50 feet of cable.
>
> I was concerned about video editing under Linux, but it turns out that
> freshmeat.net has plenty of non-linear editors.  I'm going to try Cinelerra
> first:
>
>    http://freshmeat.net/projects/cinelerra/?topic_id=256%2C120
>
> The point of the video editor is to edit out commercials for captured video
> that I decide to keep.  My primary application is to cap late-night Cartoon
> Network shows from their "Adult Swim" lineup -- namely, Cowboy Bebop and
> Trigun.
>
>  -Scott
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