On Saturday 23 August 2003 04:24 pm, Fulvio wrote: > Alle 05:16, sabato 23 agosto 2003, > kdenlive-devel-request at lists.sourceforge.net ha scritto: > > 1st my apologize because I can't configure my mailer to proper answer to a > mailing list. > > > 1. The first step I had was therefore converting them to rawdv - not too > > hard but not done via Kdenlive, I used Kino to do this. > > Let me tell you all a suggestion: is there any chance to put a video player > (say mplayer) on a pipe and piave/kdenlive can capture all single frames > without to have a nifty conversion? > > I admit that gonna be an hard job :-/
Hi Fulvio, I thought about it. This is not a hard job at all, but, frankly, it doesn't make any sense. There is a hell of a difference between _playing_ video and _editing_. I admit, most of the time mplayer can actually wind forwd/bkwd if I press <- or -> , but that deosn't mean you can do non-linear editing. Buffering a 10min PAL DVD scene in plain YUV will cost you 10*60*25*786*576*3/1024^3 GB = 18GB. (eighteen!) I tried to just take input from gstreamer/enix/etc. believe me, editing has _different_ requirements than playing. Download enix and try enix_cut. It just sucks, and Guenther (Mr. xine) is much smarter than me. Playing mpeg with libmpeg2 or ffmpeg it easy, but get it into a format for editing, i.e. heavy back and forth scrolling isn't as easy. The only application which can do this in a half decent way is VirtualDUB. Three options: - wait for enix. That will take a while if possible it at all. - implement MPEG-II support in piave. And there is more to it than just calls to libffmpeg - convert to DV. If your footage is compatible in resolution, aspect ratio, framerate, and audio with DV-PAL or DV-NTSC, you are set and done. Use transcode. It works since piave can read DV inside avi-containers. Cheers, Rolf *************************************************************** Rolf Dubitzky e-mail: Rolf.Dubitzky at Physik.TU-Dresden.de s-mail see http://hep.phy.tu-dresden.de/~dubitzky/ ***************************************************************