Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:49:57 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: b.j.casavant@ieee.org Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD DV howto? Message-ID: <20061017.114957.-460542995.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20061017013242.P60110@abigail.hsd1.mn.comcast.net> References: <20061016.205054.-1303464845.imp@bsdimp.com> <20061017013242.P60110@abigail.hsd1.mn.comcast.net>
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Brent Casavant <b.j.casavant@ieee.org> writes:
: 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.
I've found the dvrecv port. It works great for capturing the DV
video. That's not been a problem.
: > 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.
Kino gives me a bus error when I run it. The window pops up and I get
a bus error. Likely some silly ports dependency issue.
: 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.
Cool! I'll have to try that out.
: > 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.
I'd be happy with 720p. However, 720p is 1280x720. 480[ip] are
640x480.
: > 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.
Like I said, kino gives a bus error when i run it. Like right away,
before it can even completely paint the screen.
Warner
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