Joshua N Pritikin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> i tried <http://www.mainconcept.com/mainactor.shtml> but it isn't
> working smoothly enough.  i need to remix MPEG-1 from VCDs and burn
> custom VCDs.  MainActor is much too slow even my P-3 850MHz.

  What do you mean by too slow?  You mean that seeking around and
looking at frames is slow?  How is it slow?  I'm curious.

  One thing to keep in mind that MPEG-1 is compressed video with
keyframes, and also lack of good timestamps.  For a video editor to work
correctly with MPEG-1 video directly it would probably have to prescan
the whole file and mark keyframes for quick access, but decoding would
still take alot of time.  You might consider trying to dump the video
maybe to huge uncompressed or RLE-encoded video files and edit with that
(something like huffyuv), or recompress to a non-keyframe based codec
like DV (but you'd have problems with the chroma if you're not careful).

  DV is much easier to edit since seeking is fast and to view a given
frame you only need to decode that one frame.

> No doubt professional video editing is available for Windows, but i
> was hoping for a linux solution.

  For kicks you could try Cinelerra
(http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3) but I don't think you should
get your hopes up.

-- 
Billy Biggs
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