Thank you Keith. The guides provided are for use on Windows, not Linux, I believe, as both VirtualDub and VirtualVCR are Windows-centric. Are there any other tools that can be used under Linux?
Thanks, Ahmed On 11/29/05, Keith C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 29, 2005, at 9:06 AM, Ahmed El-Daly wrote: > > Does anyone have an answer for this? > Thanks. > > > I'll give it a shot. > > from the mythtv-dev list: > The ivtv captures from tape are notoriously full of missing video frames > which break most post-processing programs. > > There's a good guide on http://doom9.org . They don't allow direct linking, > so click on Guides, then TV-Capture & DV cameras, then the ProjectX > reference. > > I think MythTV is also including an MPEG-2 to MPEG-2 transcoder that does a > good job of cleaning up files (and cutting commercials). It's not active by > default yet, but its working : > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/160704 > > I've never had any problem transcoding the ivtv MPEG-2's to other formats > using ffmpegx, but I've never tried loading the raw MPEG-2 into an editing > program. > > Good luck, > Keith C > > > > > On 11/28/05, Ahmed El-Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am running a PVR-150MCE successfully using the ivtv driver. I can > successfully capture video from my handycam by running > cat /dev/video > filename.mpg > I can then view the file via mplayer fine. The problem is when trying > to edit the file using any editing software as the file would either > not load, or the timeline would be corrupt. > > Running mpgtx on the file produces the following output: > mpgtx -i tape01.mpg > warning: couldn't find any valid system header. I'm continuing anyway > tape01.mpg > Mpeg 2 Program Stream File [Video/Audio] > Muxrate : 11.92 Mbps > Estimated Duration: 204963825319936.00s > Checking all time stamps (This may take a while.) ... > Time stamps jumped from 9090.605522 to 158.258089 at position > a4fa800 > Time stamps jumped from 204963823077964.781250 to 225.758844 at > position > eb08800 > Time stamps jumped from 204963823023420.562500 to 228.428178 at > position > edeb800 > Time stamps jumped from 204963823082981.937500 to 252.285333 at > position > 10703800 > Time stamps jumped from 204963823035993.562500 to 1583.848933 at > positio > n 66ffa800 > Time stamps jumped from 2450.014222 to 793.404622 at position > 9f655815 > Time stamps jumped from 204963823040985.687500 to 2450.281156 at > positio > n 9f69a800 > Time stamps jumped from 204963823021396.875000 to 2502.633467 at > positio > n a2d53000 > Time stamps jumped from 204963823020408.750000 to 2579.576978 at > positio > n a7d6d000 > Time stamps jumped from 9143.913511 to 2829.726889 at position > b80b0000 > Time stamps jumped from 48033.616644 to 3304.100800 at position > d6d7f800 > Time stamps jumped from 54546.910089 to 3441.471333 at position > dfc7d800 > Time stamps jumped from 4314.009689 to 59.762489 at position > 1189fb815 > Time stamps jumped from 18152.323900 to 5086.381289 at > position 14aebf000 > Time stamps jumped from 204963823030048.468750 to 5812.540044 > at position 17a1be000 > Time stamps jumped from 67606.088056 to 6657.250578 at > position 1b10b0000 > Time line is interupted at 16 times. > That means at these points the time stamp is earlier than the previous > one. > You may have problems in joining and splitting this file, sorry. > Aspect ratio 4/3 (TV) > Interlaced, chroma format: 4:2:0 > Size [720 x 480] 29.97 fps 9.60 Mbps > Audio : Mpeg 1 layer 2 > 384 kbps 48000 Hz > Stereo, No emphasis > > Note that this is a 90 minute video! > > Thanks, > Ahmed > > > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users > > _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
