I've wondered why not the main Linux distros do provide out-of-box complete and optimized DV and HDV editing environments (from camcorder to DVD and BD), especially as far as this isn't a trivial end user task on Linux.
Ubuntu Studio may be a careful beginning, but I had waited a much more progressive offensive. Why isn't i.e LinuxMCE included to compete with Windows MC and the upcoming Home server is one typical question. Are there unclear GPL and license issues that prohibit them to do and distribute this? I've heard that to generate a mpeg file one should pay a $2 single fee for this licens. If this is all that must be a minor problem to overcome. Besides, when a consumer buy i.e a Sony HDV camcorder that produce mpeg2, I prerequsitt that Sony has covered the required mpeg license. I think this mpeg2 then should be free to save on other media like PC hard disk, edit native and burn to DVD/BD, still within mpeg without decoding and encoding. Terje J. Hanssen _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
