Re: casablanca
Scott Ferguson schreef: On 08/01/12 04:59, steef wrote: hi all! maybe this question does not belong on this maybe it does: however... as a long time debian user i give it a try in the hope a kind soul can be of some help a friend of mine is a birdwatcher and makes movies of woodpeckers with youngs in their nest; a tedious job of weeks of observation etc. with three cameras in our sometime horrible dutch climate. he tried to put the images of these three cameras together with a piece of german hardware called casablanca running on opensource software (guess what!) called bogart. the hd-capacity of the hardware is 500 GB. type 2000S. software type unknown. he put the output-images (raw) an enormous quantity of a couple of terabytes on 4 external hd's. he could not open any of the images (collected in projects) anymore so he came to me. with mplayer and some experiments in /etc/fstab and /mnt, gparted and mkfs.ext3 i could mount some parts of one of the hdś and make the images visible again on a partition in one of my machines, however, without sound. sorry for this long introduction. my question: is there somebody out there who knows more of the casablanca 2000S and the software called bogart? thank you, regards, steef Pretty sure the format was AVCHD (mpeg .mt2s files), sounds like you've found ffmpeg will handle the video (using libavcodec). You might also try ffdshow tryouts:- http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/ Sound is probably PCM (for quality), but could be AC-3 Cheers thanks scott. this could be of substantial help. reg., steef -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f0abbc7.1010...@home.nl
[OT] Re: casablanca
On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:59:32 +, steef wrote: hi all! maybe this question does not belong on this maybe it does: however... as a long time debian user i give it a try in the hope a kind soul can be of some help I'm earning points for my parcel at heaven O:-) a friend of mine is a birdwatcher and makes movies of woodpeckers with youngs in their nest; a tedious job of weeks of observation etc. with three cameras in our sometime horrible dutch climate. he tried to put the images of these three cameras together with a piece of german hardware called casablanca running on opensource software (guess what!) called bogart. the hd-capacity of the hardware is 500 GB. type 2000S. software type unknown. he put the output-images (raw) an enormous quantity of a couple of terabytes on 4 external hd's. he could not open any of the images (collected in projects) anymore so he came to me. with mplayer and some experiments in /etc/fstab and /mnt, gparted and mkfs.ext3 i could mount some parts of one of the hdś and make the images visible again on a partition in one of my machines, however, without sound. sorry for this long introduction. Long introduction was required to fully understand the problematic. Okay, Google returned this: http://www.macrosystem.us/index.php?pr=S3000 So I think your friend's appliance would be similar (maybe an older version). It seems to be a dedicated computer for managing (input/output) high ammounts of multimedia data which uses its own software for handling the files (import/export and editing operations). The fact that your were able to reproduce the images but no sound it could indicate the files are using an audio codec not installed in your machine. What's the output of file run over one of those raw files? Are they video or just plain images? I ask this because sometimes, high-end multimedia systems split video files in separate chuncks of video and audio tracks for quick access and software manipulation. my question: is there somebody out there who knows more of the casablanca 2000S and the software called bogart? I would also ask to the company tech support guys, they will provide more information about the raw format used by Casablanca, audio and video codecs, etc... Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jec8tj$tvi$9...@dough.gmane.org
Re: [OT] Re: casablanca
thanks for your response. look down here further Camaleón schreef: On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:59:32 +, steef wrote: hi all! maybe this question does not belong on this maybe it does: however... as a long time debian user i give it a try in the hope a kind soul can be of some help I'm earning points for my parcel at heaven O:-) guess you do! a friend of mine is a birdwatcher and makes movies of woodpeckers with youngs in their nest; a tedious job of weeks of observation etc. with three cameras in our sometime horrible dutch climate. he tried to put the images of these three cameras together with a piece of german hardware called casablanca running on opensource software (guess what!) called bogart. the hd-capacity of the hardware is 500 GB. type 2000S. software type unknown. he put the output-images (raw) an enormous quantity of a couple of terabytes on 4 external hd's. he could not open any of the images (collected in projects) anymore so he came to me. with mplayer and some experiments in /etc/fstab and /mnt, gparted and mkfs.ext3 i could mount some parts of one of the hdś and make the images visible again on a partition in one of my machines, however, without sound. sorry for this long introduction. Long introduction was required to fully understand the problematic. Okay, Google returned this: http://www.macrosystem.us/index.php?pr=S3000 i saw that one So I think your friend's appliance would be similar (maybe an older version). correct It seems to be a dedicated computer for managing (input/output) high ammounts of multimedia data which uses its own software for handling the files (import/export and editing operations). correct too The fact that your were able to reproduce the images but no sound it could indicate the files are using an audio codec not installed in your machine. well: the reality knows more nuances. the files i can reproduce do not produce environmental sounds. the files i cannot reproduce give one short image followed by coloured 'rubble' (is that the proper term ?) and some environmental sound. very funny indeed. What's the output of file run over one of those raw files? Are they video or just plain images? I ask this because sometimes, high-end multimedia systems split video files in separate chuncks of video and audio tracks for quick access and software manipulation. these video-files are spilt in separate files; on their turn split in separate chunks of about 7 or 8 GBs. mplayer opens them as raw files with the (ffmpeg) mpeg2 codes. my question: is there somebody out there who knows more of the casablanca 2000S and the software called bogart? I would also ask to the company tech support guys, they will provide more information about the raw format used by Casablanca, audio and video codecs, etc... my brother did. the dutch importer was of good will; his representatives too but they could not provide any help. the german chaps said bluntly they could and would not provide any help. (they seem only to be happy to help their own money-bags with opensource software). I'll provide you with the output of the mplayer-console somewhat later today. first i must startup our business again. tomorrow we start working all over in a new year. Greetings, kind regards, steef -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f09bf67.7000...@home.nl
Re: [OT] Re: casablanca
On Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:08:07 +, steef wrote: thanks for your response. look down here further Camaleón schreef: (...) The fact that your were able to reproduce the images but no sound it could indicate the files are using an audio codec not installed in your machine. well: the reality knows more nuances. the files i can reproduce do not produce environmental sounds. the files i cannot reproduce give one short image followed by coloured 'rubble' (is that the proper term ?) and some environmental sound. very funny indeed. He... maybe they are separated video files and sound files. Question here is how to join them again. But let me ask you something, what was the workflow for the videos? Were the cameras (input devices) directly connected to/processed by Casablanca or your friend just copied the video files to the external device and then wanted to import them into Casablanca? In brief, what device generated the raw files, the cameras or Casablanca? What's the output of file run over one of those raw files? Are they video or just plain images? I ask this because sometimes, high-end multimedia systems split video files in separate chuncks of video and audio tracks for quick access and software manipulation. these video-files are spilt in separate files; on their turn split in separate chunks of about 7 or 8 GBs. mplayer opens them as raw files with the (ffmpeg) mpeg2 codes. If the files were directly processed by Casablanca I wonder why your friend cannot open the files from Bogart's software provided by the manufacturer :-? I would also ask to the company tech support guys, they will provide more information about the raw format used by Casablanca, audio and video codecs, etc... my brother did. the dutch importer was of good will; his representatives too but they could not provide any help. the german chaps said bluntly they could and would not provide any help. (they seem only to be happy to help their own money-bags with opensource software). (...) How bad... if I were your friend I would ask for the source code of that system, Bogart, just to annoy them a bit :-) There is a forum, you can also try there: http://www.casablancaforum.us/ Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jeceme$tvi$1...@dough.gmane.org
casablanca
hi all! maybe this question does not belong on this maybe it does: however... as a long time debian user i give it a try in the hope a kind soul can be of some help a friend of mine is a birdwatcher and makes movies of woodpeckers with youngs in their nest; a tedious job of weeks of observation etc. with three cameras in our sometime horrible dutch climate. he tried to put the images of these three cameras together with a piece of german hardware called casablanca running on opensource software (guess what!) called bogart. the hd-capacity of the hardware is 500 GB. type 2000S. software type unknown. he put the output-images (raw) an enormous quantity of a couple of terabytes on 4 external hd's. he could not open any of the images (collected in projects) anymore so he came to me. with mplayer and some experiments in /etc/fstab and /mnt, gparted and mkfs.ext3 i could mount some parts of one of the hdś and make the images visible again on a partition in one of my machines, however, without sound. sorry for this long introduction. my question: is there somebody out there who knows more of the casablanca 2000S and the software called bogart? thank you, regards, steef -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f088804.8080...@home.nl
