** Chris Dennis <cgdennis@???> [2008-05-16 08:36]:
> Paul Tansom wrote:
> >This isn't something I've played around with much. I got a genlock for
> >my old Amiga 1500 many moons ago, and have done a bit of capture on a
> >PC. Initially using my old Matrox Marvel card and Windows, and more
> >recently (OK, about 5 years ago instead of about 9 years ago!) I
> >reviewed a PCMCIA firewire card and did come capture using Kino on an
> >old Debian install. I'm back at it now with a couple of projects that I
> >need to sort out now though, so hoped someone could give me a few good
> >starting points.
> >
> >The requirements are pretty similar, but not quite identical:
> >
> >1. I have a set of .flv files that I want to get onto my HD/DVD recorder
> >so that I can then burn them to DVD along with some bits already on the
> >recorder. I've converted them to mpeg files (unfortunately using Windows
> >for the conversion as for some reason the copy of ffmpeg on Debian
> >doesn't handle .flv files - I'm assuming licensing/freedom issues) and
> >joined them together (a simple cat worked well enough which surprised
> >me), so the next stage is to get them onto DVD. I'm not expecting to be
> >able to copy from a burnt DVD to the HD, so assume I somehow need to
> >copy them onto a DVD-RAM disk in the appropriate format.
>
> DeVeDe handles a wide variety of formats when creating DVDs, including
> .flv -- see http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html
Thanks for that one, the name rings a bell, but I'd clearly missed it
this time round the investigation loop!
> dvdrip will do any DVD reading required -- see http://exit1.org/dvdrip/
I've come across this one, but it wouldn't help in this situation. My
reference to not being able to copy from a DVD is referring to having
created the DVD on my PC and then not being able to transfer it from the
DVD to my DVD recorder. This is the step I need to handle, and although
the recorder can read SD cards, it won't recognise anything other than
static pictures on them as I've already tried to copy an mpeg across and
not been able to see the file. I could copy the files from the recorder
onto the PC and then create the DVD from there, but that won't match the
rest and subsequent disks - although it may be a fall back option.
Originally I was going to head down this route, but having found it very
easy to burn and finalise a disk with a (somewhat boring) menu straight
from the recorder I've taken the lazy route - if for no other reason than
speed, otherwise the HD on my recorder will stay jam packed with
recordings that I'd like to archive!!
> >This looks likely to cause me to resort to Windows as the DVD format is
> >UDF and I've not been able to read that on Linux (although to be honest
> >I've not investigated far, but since this is likely a one off I'll
> >probably be lazy!). The disk seems to require 3 files, a .VRO that seems
> >to be an mpeg file with a different extension, and a pair of config
> >files with the .bup and .ifo extensions. I've on idea how to create
> >those though.
> >
> >2. This is the more interesting and longer term one. I have some video
> >recorded on DV (and Hi8 for older stuff) that I'll be either capturing
> >onto the recorder (probably causing issues related to the above) or
> >more likely directly to the PC (the DV can come in via firewire easily
> >enough). What I then need to do is edit, create some titles and burn to
> >DVD in a format for standard players.
> >
> >>From what I can see from a bit of Google work the best apps to use for
> >this seem to be kino/dvgrab for capture, Cinelerra for editing and then
> >dvdstyler/dvdauthor to create the DVD iso ready to burn, although LiVES
> >also gets a few mentions. Has anyone tried these, or can anyone suggest
> >any others worth investigating?
> >
> I've used Kino and DVDStyler successfully once or twice. QDVDauthor is
> workable too -- see http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/
** end quote [Chris Dennis]
That looks interesting and worth investigating. What I really need to
ensure though is that I don't get bogged down / have too much fun
investigating and experimenting and never get the actual work done! My
first project is to create a DVD of a video of my sons drama club play,
then no doubt I'll start tracking back through my older DV tapes and
even older Hi8 tapes to ensure the recordings don't get lost in the mist
of time and lack of access to suitable hardware to play the tapes on!
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