DV video capture and edit in Ubuntu linux August 12th, 2008
Video editing capability is a necessity these days, when I finally found a good combination of software to use I was very happy. After-all, all you students and poor people out there, it's not like you want to have to go pirate Final Cut Pro or anything like that just to practice some skillz as an amateur film producer .. Video editing should be free! Content is King!!
Use DVgrab directly (no need for fancy UI here)
sudo apt-get install dvgrabsudo dvgrab -a outfile-When you are done editing, save back into format RAW dv
From there use a program such as DeVeDe ...
sudo apt-get install devede
devedeThese are the basics that will get you going in a professional way! I am very happy to see that Cinelerra has matured so much and the Ubuntu packages are working flawlessly on my main workbeast that currently runs Ubuntu Gusty. Thanks a bunch!
Using DRb and ruby to control mplayer and record/playback HDTV. March 14th, 2007
I wanted HDTV broadcast in Ubuntu, so I bought a PC-HDTV 5500 tuner. It needs a 2.6.18 or higher kernel to work.
I’ve been working on some scripts to control my TV. So far I have a rudimentary server and client along with a HDTV record script that uses a direct copy from the device using the linux tool ‘cat’. My system @kernel 2.6.19 had a bug which causes cat to overflow.. So there is error detection and resume recording after a crash.
I’ll be using linux CRON to schedule recordings.
It is a work in progress.
Here is the SVN repository:
http://svn.rubyonlinux.org/mplayerctl/
I used Kazuki Takemura’s code to control mplayer, and extended it to use DRb connections.
Go ahead and comment if you are interested in helping with the project. I want it to become a simpler MythTV style thing eventually.. SIMPLER is better.
New commits, March 2008. Rudimentary recording and scheduling via cron are now possible. Need to improve the actual mplayer part now but it’s working so that’s great.