Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:48:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Brent Casavant <b.j.casavant@ieee.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD DV howto? Message-ID: <20061017013242.P60110@abigail.hsd1.mn.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20061016.205054.-1303464845.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20061016.205054.-1303464845.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote: > I'm wondering if anybody has a FreeBSD DV how-to. I have a DV > camera and a AMD64 FreeBSD laptop. I'd like to harvest the pictures > from it to (a) archive it in DV25 mode Just this past weekend I finished capturing about 6.5 hours of DV footage from my camera. I just copied the raw DV streams using: fwcontrol -R myfile.dv Bear in mind that this file won't have an AVI wrapper around it or any other extra bits. It's just the raw footage. I've found that Kino and iMovie understand these files with no problems. > and (b) process it to create a DVD. I generally use Kino to create a set of cuts and save the list into Kino's ".smil" file. A homegrown Perl script then uses 'dd' to extract the clips into individual files. It's still a little clunky, but it gets the job done for my purposes. In my case I just want to get the footage out to DVD, without much in the way of intermediate editting, so effects/fading/etc are something I haven't experimented with. This might change as I may need to write a custom plugin for Kino to do some constrast enhancement on some of my new footage, but that's probably beyond what you need to accomplish. Until recently I hadn't found anything to take that last step to author a DVD on FreeBSD (I had to use a Mac). Then I ran across dvdstyler (in ports), which does the job fairly handily. Now, creating good-looking menus and chapters requires more artistic skill than I myself am blessed with, but from a basic functional perspective it worked quite well. Well at least on the one small (~20 minutes of footage) project I used it for -- those 6.5 hours of footage I've just captured are going to be my personal torture test. > It would also be nice 'play' the video on my HDTV that supports > 1080p. I know that DV is 640x480, but that's better than normal NTS, > right? Actually, I believe NTSC DV is 720x480. Anyway, assuming you can author an NTSC DVD using dvdstyler or something of that nature, it should work the same way as a purchased video DVD on your TV system. > And kino, which gives me a bus > error. Anything else? As mentioned 'fwcontrol' (part of the base system). Kino has some Linux-isms built into it, one of which is the expectation to use the Linux raw1394 interface for DV capture, which doesn't (to my knowledge) exist on FreeBSD. Instead use fwcontrol to capture the DV stream, and Kino to process the resulting file. Brent
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