Back to Win XP for camera?

[H.S.]

squareyes wrote:

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> Hi, many thanks works very well, a bit jerky first capture, but had
> other applications open, fine when they all closed,

Yes, you may need to free up your cpu if it is not fast enough. More RAM 
also helps.

I usually use dvgrab to capture the video from the camera as the first 
step. I also do this on a console (CTRL+ALT+F1 or f2 till F6). On my 
1.9GHz Pentium with 1.25GB RAM, I have not had to kill the xserver 
first, otherwise I would have done '/etc/init.d/gdm stop' and then do 
the transfer.

Once I have captured the footage (you can use --timestamp and 
--autosplit with dvgrab to have time of the scene included in the 
filename and have one file for each shot), I then open up kino to edit 
the video (or any other application). I can even use my brother's Mac to 
make a video from that captured data.

Of course, you can do the capture from within Kino as well. The previous 
method is very useful if you want to use all resources for this.


> easier than Windows :-)

True!


> I have Kino installed, have been transferring files from camera via a
> memory stick from a neighbours XP,
> now can do it all myself. He has an identical camera, but cannot be
> converted to Linux :-)
> 
> I contacted Panasonic (South Australia), told them they very nearly lost 
> a sale,and suggested that they investigate possibility
> of including info on dvgrab and Kino on their literature accompanying 
> their cameras, for Linux users, they sounded interested, we live in hope.
> Again many thanks,
> Take Care
> Winton


Good luck!
->HS