janos, this is perfectly normal. in detail: 0. look twice at the name. cinelerra. :-)
1. no one is able to record with cinelerra. use "dvgrab" instead, or "kino" if you have a powerful computer. 2. don't worry. once you get the recorded material into cinelerra, it is a powerful program. only the recording module has never worked, and it is not worked upon because dvgrab/kino does such a good job. 3. rtfm 8-) good luck georg On Tuesday 09 December 2008 04:25:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can anybody please help me with two problems? I'm new to video editing, > and especially with Linux. I have a cheap analogue video capture card (bttv > based) and with it came a simple Windoz software. I have since completely > changed over to Linux at home. I compiled Cinerella and even created a > short DVD (nothing fancy). After this intro, here are my two problems: > > 1.) I'm unable to record with Cinerella. Depending on various settings in > preferences the maximum I can get is a green screen, maybe some sound, > but no video content. The worst case is that Cinerella crashes. I studied > the manual, tried various settings to no avail. I can record analogue > composite video signal through bttv card with xatv streamer, maybe even > with lavrec, but not with Cinerella. The analogue video input signal shows > on xawtv or I can record it with streamer. > > 2.) The audio signal on such recorded video shows as overloaded in > Cinerella. It playes too loud and it is of course distorted. On the > otherhand, mplayer plays it back correctly. It does not matter whether I > use OSS or ALSA in Cinerella. I even recorded with streamer when audio line > input was lowered in alsamix. Cinerella still showed it overloaded. The > audio input is through line-in of sound card, the video input is through > video in of bttv capture card. > > Any ideas what could be wrong? > > Thanks, > > Janos > > > _______________________________________________ > Cinelerra mailing list > [email protected] > https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra -- dr. kurt georg hooss kurts film / schoepfung & wandel breite strasse 6-8, d-23552 luebeck kurts-film.de _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
