[Digikam-users] How to work with AVCHD videos?

[Gilles Caulier]

CameraGUI (renamed ImportUI in next 3.0.0 release) is under revamping
through GoSC2012

We currently add group item feature. It's that you need : group video + image.

Right ?

Gilles Caulier

2012/8/23 John Stumbles <john at stumbles.org.uk>:
> On 23/08/12 06:26, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>>
>> try kdenlive editor...
>
>
> I've been meaning to try to get up the learning curve with that or Lives or
> one of the Linux video editors (I've been using kino for DVs but to edit
> anything else requires converting to DV first, and it's a bit limited in
> what it can do).
>
> But what I meant (sorry, it was late and I wasn't being very clear) was how
> to import/download the videos from my Lumix along with the still pictures it
> takes, as I would if I had the camera set to record in a format that
> produces MOV files. So I want to extract the timestamp information from
> wherever that is stored [1] and use that to timestamp the videos in the same
> format as my stills (in my case yyyyMMdd_hhmmss_[file]{lower}.[ext]{lower}).
> I probably also need to convert from  MPEG Transport Stream to MPEG Program
> Stream[2].
>
> I realise this functionality is a big ask from the digikam developers
> (unless they happen to have a camera that records in this format ;-)) but I
> hope it's useful to formulate the problem, and I wonder if anyone knows of
> existing tools that might help me roll my own solution in the meantime.
>
> .....................................................................
>
> [1] I guess it's in the PRIVATE/AVCHD/BDMV/CLIPINF/nnnnn.CPI files but
> although `file`'s magic recognises them, they're not stored as text:
> $ file /media/814C-DD20/PRIVATE/AVCHD/BDMV/CLIPINF/00000.CPI
> /media/814C-DD20/PRIVATE/AVCHD/BDMV/CLIPINF/00000.CPI: AVCHD Clip
> Information
>
> $ strings /media/814C-DD20/PRIVATE/AVCHD/BDMV/CLIPINF/00000.CPI
> HDMV0100
> HDMV
> 00001M2TS
> 1und
> FCLEX
>
> [2] comment from mcduck on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=864983
>
>
>
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