[transcode-devel] DV (raw) to DV (avi)?

[Steve Hosgood]

I'm using transcode 1.1.x (on linux) taken from CVS (a couple of weeks 
old though) and can't work out if it's possible to repackage a DV file 
from the raw .dv file obtained from a camcorder into a "type 2 .avi" 
file required by the likes of "Adobe Elements" (a video editor on Windoze).
I had initially captured a bunch of .dv files from a camcorder under 
linux using 'kino', hence the strange cross-platform nature of the query.

Though I seem to be able to _read_ the .dv files with 'transcode', I 
can't work out the command-line syntax to output as a DV-format file in 
.avi. Presumably, such a conversion requires no more work than 
demultiplexing the .dv file and remultiplexing in .avi compliant 
fashion. However, initial (failed) experiments seem to indicate that 
'transcode' insists on decoding the DV right down to a stream of images 
and re-encoding back up again. That's not right, surely?

Eventually, I worked out how to get 'kino' to do this for me instead - 
and it did an hour of material in about 5 minutes just by repackaging as 
far as I can see. No actual decoding done by the look of it.