Laura Winston wrote:
>     * capture video from 2 live camcorders via firewire / DV feed.
>     * render the 2 camera feeds into a single image with a horizontal
>       split on the screen.
>     * the recording needs to happen in real time on the pc.
>     * allow recording straight onto HDD of the laptop

I haven't done any capture work with Cinelerra myself, but I can tell
you that it is an NLE, that is a non-linear editor, which means it's not
intended for real-time operations.

Will you be displaying the rendered output on some live display during
recording, or do you just need reliable real-time capture?

If the latter, why not just capture the raw DV streams with dvgrab or
similar, then edit them in Cinelerra later to create the split-screen
effect?

If the former, you might be able to set up a pipe using dvgrab and a
series of mjpegtools to accomplish what you need. Something like dvgrab
<parameters> | lavplay | yuvscaler <upper portion of the screen> >
fifoTop.yuv
and a similar command for the bottom half in a second terminal (on a
second processor core, preferably.)
I don't know if yuvplay supports joining, but if so, in a third terminal
you could try yuvplay fifoTop.yuv fifoBottom.yuv | mpeg2enc <parameters>
-o final.mpg

Sean

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