[NBLUG/talk] Editing .avi files - Flip Video Camera

[Dave Sisley]

Bob Blick wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> mplayer will play them if you have the right codecs installed on your
> machine. And probably avidemux will edit them also.
>
> Since I use Kubuntu, I found a program called EasyUbuntu that installed
> all those things for me. Now my computer will even play more M$ formats
> than my Windows machine. "Automatix" performs similar install functions.
> There are versions for various distros.
>
> When I was getting that PAL DVD to play I installed tovid, which I
> recommend for making DVDs. It comes with "idvid" which will analyze a
> video and tell you what it's made up of.
>
> Cheerful regards,
>
> Bob
>   
Thanks, Bob:
I forgot to mention that mplayer plays the video fine (so does totem, 
which I guess just uses mplayer on the backend).  It's the editing that 
I want to get set up. 

I will try and see if idvid can tell me anything.
-dave.

> Dave Sisley wrote:
>   
>> Hey, Luggers:
>>
>> I just bought my son a Flip Video Camera for his birthday, and I need 
>> some help setting him up with a film editor.  The camera saves video as 
>> .avi files and we are having trouble opening them with the various 
>> editors I have installed.  The errors seem different, depending on which 
>> editor I use
>>
>>     * kino
>>           o complains that the file is not a DV file and asks to import
>>             it.  The new file will play, but is missing a good chunk of
>>             the video (it only plays a few seconds of the whole thing)
>>     * cinelerra - won't show any of the video, displays error messages:
>>           o 'virutal int FileMOV::read_frame(VFRAME*):
>>             quicktime_read_frame/quicktime_decode_video failed, result:'
>>             [and that's it... no 'result']
>>           o If I launch it from the command line, I get the same message
>>             in a gui popup as you see above, but the console shows the
>>             following:
>>                 + new_acodec: couldn't find codec for "
" [this is
>>                   printed out 3x, and that unreadable character looks
>>                   like a weird capital D in my terminal screen]
>>     * avidemux
>>           o complains that no audio decoder is found and will play the
>>             video with no sound
>>
>>
>> I looked at the product info page for the camera 
>> <http://www.theflip.com/products.shtml>, and it says that it features 
>> 'MPEG-4 recorded video files saved in AVI format'.
>>
>> The ultimate goal is to be able to edit videos and convert them if 
>> necessary for posting on our webserver.  Can someone point me in the 
>> right direction as to how to install the proper backend stuff that will 
>> get one of the listed apps  to work (or please feel free to suggest 
>> another...)?  Or do I need to dig into the AVI format that this camera 
>> puts out in order to tell the application how to play it?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> -dave
>>
>>     
>
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