<quote who="Peter Garrone"> > I'm having a bit of trouble finding my way round the the rest of it > though. I have been looking at the debian/woody vstream package, > mjpegtools, and fame et al, and getting problems such as: > - lavrec fails in an ioctl call > - stream trys to open ludicrous device files, and attempts to open > read/write > - mjpegtools fails to compile. > - The linux howto suggests a completely unknown package, called vcr. > - fame fails to compile, and a third utility with it wouldnt even > unpack. > > What I want to know is, whats the secret here? How do you make > compressed > videos? Has anybody able to string complete sentences together > documented it? Something out there has to work. Especially with a debian > system. If anyone knows, please post me a few links. >
I've used vcr successfully to record avi movies in divx format... The good news? It is in woody! apt-cache show vcr Package: vcr Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: graphics Installed-Size: 212 Maintainer: David LaBissoniere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1.09-4 Depends: libavifile0.6 (>= 0.6.0.20011220-1.1), libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (>= 1:2.95.4-0.010810) Description: v4l video capture program allows capturing and compressing segments of video from any device supported by video4linux. It doesn't require a graphical environment, and you can use all popular windows codecs (like DivX, Indeo Video 5, etc) because VCR is built around the avifile library. It's a command line tool for recording... I use xine to play the movies back. About 4 days about, also, there was the 1.0 release of a package called cinelerra... which provides video editing facilities in a GPL package. I spent a few minutes the other night trying to get it to compile on woody without luck, but I plan to get that going, and I'll let SLUG know what my experience is with it. Anyone else looked at cinelerra? Cheers, J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homer: "No TV and No Beer make Homer something something" Marge: "Go Crazy?" Homer: "Don't mind if I do! aaaarrrarrgghar!" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
