[Kdenlive-devel] kdenlive vs Sony Hi-8 HandyCam DCR-TRV460, with kino thrown in

gene heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Fri Apr 29 11:49:20 UTC 2011


On Friday, April 29, 2011 07:48:37 AM gene heskett did opine:

> Greetings;
> 
> Your recent freshmeat announcement of 8.0 triggered my curiosity again,
> so I plugged in my camera, which did not seem to be properly discovered
> by the kernel, a 2.6.38.4-pae kernel built by my distro, pclos.  From
> the msgs log:
> 
> Apr 27 13:44:46 coyote klogd: firewire_core: skipped bus generations,
> destroying all nodes
> Apr 27 13:44:46 coyote klogd: firewire_core: rediscovered device fw0
> Apr 27 13:44:46 coyote klogd: firewire_core: phy config: card 0, new
> root=ffc1, gap_count=5
> Apr 27 13:44:46 coyote klogd: firewire_core: skipped bus generations,
> destroying all nodes
> Apr 27 13:44:47 coyote klogd: firewire_core: rediscovered device fw0
> Apr 27 13:44:47 coyote klogd: firewire_core: created device fw1: GUID
> 08004601044684e4, S100
> Apr 27 13:44:49 coyote klogd: firewire_core: giving up on config rom for
> node id ffc0
> 
> Which is repeated every time the cable is plugged into the camera.  It
> may switch to /dev/fw1 at times too.
> 
> kdenlive (mine is version 7.8) supposedly gained camera controls back in
> 2006 according to the ChangeLog on your web pages, but despite have them
> turned on, the buttons don't work, and despite trying both of the non-
> screenshot choices available in the menu's, no video from the camera can
> be found.
> 
> Shut kdenlive down and fire up kino-1.3.4, and it all Just Works(TM).
> Flawlessly...
> 
> Then I go back and run kdenlive, and go see if it can load and edit any
> of the several weddings and other movies I have made with kino over the
> years, and in only one case can it even see the filenames, but it
> cannot open them, and ANAICT doesn't even make the attempt.
> 
> The end result is that I have yet to see kdenlive actually play a video
> of any kind.  The pclos installed version is 7.8, and the running
> kernel is 2.6.38.4-pae. 32 bit.
> 
> Now, its been 3 or 4 years since I made the last dvd's of a wedding, so
> I need the recipe for importing the best, cleanest image from a 720x480
> NTSC camera, and then from my edit final, make that into a dvd the
> parents and kids can both play.  They've been waiting patiently since
> last November 2010, I assume because I downloaded a copy to their vhs
> machine before I came home.  But I know I can make a dvd that is many
> times sharper and cleaner than that vhs can do even in the test
> laboratory.
> 
> Was that ever committed to a kino "do this, in this order" recipe that
> makes us all look like we know what we are doing?  URL please if it
> exists.
> 
> Thanks for any help here.

Ping?

-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
<http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz>
<http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html>
I never pray before meals -- my mom's a good cook.




More information about the Kdenlive mailing list