Re: HD capture question

Op vrijdag 26-03-2010 om 16:04 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Dan
Dennedy:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Richard Rasker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Op dinsdag 23-03-2010 om 18:00 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Daniel
> > Jircik:
> >> Kino does not support hdv. Try kdenlive which is based on the melt
> >> library which plays just about anything. Kino is no longer developed.
> >> Ciao
> >> Daniel
> >
> > Hm, I tried rendering the .mov file to raw DV using Kdenlive, but I
> > still get a rather choppy result -- even though Kdenlive didn't come up
> > with any warnings or error messages. It isn't quite as bad a Kino's
> > rendering, but it's unusable all the same.
> 
> Maybe you chose the wrong project setting.
> 
> > Is there perhaps a recent CLI tool for properly transcoding this H.264
> > beastie to a more open format, so that I get to see exactly what's going
> > on? Sorry if I sound terribly uninformed, but I have no experience with
> > HD content whatsoever.
> 
> The following works beautifully with the sample you provided:
> 
> $ melt -profile dv_ntsc_wide file0034.mov -consumer
> avformat:file0034.dv pix_fmt=yuv411p
> 
> Note the default profile is PAL DV, which does not match your input's
> aspect ratio and frame rate, hence the dv_ntsc_wide. Then, ffmpeg
> requires the pix_fmt hint to tell it which DV variant to use (dv25).

OK, thanks, this clarifies things -- and it turns out that Mandriva
2008.1 doesn't have the melt library, but it to work just fine on
version 2010. At least I now have a point of departure for further
endeavours in the realm of HD video :-)

Thanks again, best regards,

Richard Rasker


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