On Sat, March 5, 2011 03:04, Patrick Millius wrote: > On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 13:08 +0100, [email protected] wrote: >> On Fri, March 4, 2011 03:19, Patrick Millius wrote: >> > I seem to have lost the ability to import mp3 audio files as a clip in >> > multitrack mode. I was able to with LiVEs 3.11 svn. Now I have to >> > generate frames and add audio to a blank clip, then synch that in >> > multitrack mode. This is cumbersome (and time consuming) when >> capturing >> > analog video. >> > >> >> Works fine for me. What error are you seeing ? > > Sorry for duplicate message: I get the "does not appear to be a video > file" error. this has only been an issue since upgrading to the new svn > (4.1) worked fine in 3.11
If you start lives from a terminal, what do you see on there ? >> > I have been working around mencoder wanting to open the TV card as PAL >> > broadcast by using xawtv as the player whilst recording live input, >> then >> > switching back to usr/bin/mencoder for adding audio, or editng tracks >> > with audio. Xawtv crashes everything if you open an audio file. It >> does, >> > however let one access the TV card input settings. TvTime works too, >> but >> > is more picky what order things are opened. > >> Is that the problem then, that mplayer is defaulting to PAL intead of >> NTSC >> for you ? How about if you set the width, height and fps in LiVES ? > > Yes and No. Yes mplayer defaults to PAL which makes sense, based on the > geograpy. Mplayer doesn't seen to have a way to change the default thru > GUI and I don't know where to find the lines of code to change from PAL > and "input0" to NTSC and "input1" That's all it would take. Two lines of > code. If only I knew where. I tried launchpad and mencoder's site > forums, but no luck so far. > Well, you can set the input number in the advanced settings. Is this not working ? Also there should be no need to set NTSC, as this is just 30 fps with a frame size of 720 z 480. > Changing the width height, fps etc in LiVEs doesn't do much; the card is > being opened in the wrong format by Mencoder/mplayer. Lives just tries > and do the best it can with the corrupt data Mplayer sends it. The > reason the capture card works for me with xawtv or tvtime set as the > player for LiVes is both of those apps let me to the card's input > settings. Again, somewhere there are two lines I could change in > Mplayer/mencoder, but I don't seem to be able to find them. > >> > I have been able to do some pretty good capture, considering it all is >> > old magnetic tape I'm sourcing from. Audio synch isn't too hard if one >> > can open audio files as clips...> >> > Any hope for audio support in live input recording? >> > >> I don't know...did you create a feature request for it ? > Didn't even think of that. Do I do that thru the LiVEs website, then? > Yes, there is a link on the "support" page. Gabriel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ Lives-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lives-users
