On Sunday 07 August 2005 20:36, Jon Roed wrote: >I was wondering if anyone knew of a program out there for making > VCD's. I have heard of a couple of ways to do it, but they all > seemed pretty complicated. Is there something nice and simple that > doesn't involve using a terminal ?
What's a "terminal" have to do with it? I recently had the pleasure of attending the wedding of the girl next door, whom I've watched grow for the last 16 years, and shot it with my Sony Hi-8 digital handycam, one with a firewire port. I made sure I had the latest stuff now in kernels newer than 2.6.10 IIRC, for the ieee1394 stuff. I run bleeding edge kernels here anyway, currently 2.6.13-rc6. Then I found a program called 'kino' which can upload from the camera to the HD over firewire, so that 22 minutes of video became around 8GB of files chopped into 2GB or less pieces and seemlessly spliced back together on playback by kino. Using kino's mark and cut editing, I pulled the worst of my handheld shakes out of it. Then I needed to find some of the export tools kino needs and install them. As this particular box is FC2, yum took care of the dependencies there, and it Just Worked(TM). Once that was done, it took this XP-2800 athlon about an hour to 'export' the file(s) as a one piece audio encapsulated .mpeg of about 335 megs, which I then burned to cd-r with k3b. It played fine in my Apex player that had been de-emasculated, so I made 3 copies and gave one to the kids and each of their parents. It played just fine for everybody. And here, I could not tell the difference between playing it back directly from the camera, and playing it from the cd in my dvd player, other than my snippage of a second or 2's shakes here and there. That handycam is for the money, an amazing camera. Next time I take a tripod, and possibly a boom microphone for better audio. That was very painfull to my 70 year old arms and hands to hold still for that long in the rather awkward handheld grip that camera imposes on you. OTOH, the camera's own noise, as recorded by its built in microphones (stereo too!, all the way to the vcd) was quite unobtrusive, somewhat surprising this old broadcast engineer. The moral of this detail-less story is that, yes Virginia, you *can* do that with linux. Quite nicely in fact. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
