> The last time I looked at dvgrab, it had no camera controls, but I'll > have to admit that was several years ago. But can it edit? kino can. > > Odd, I can't find it in the tde menu's, but synaptic says it is > installed, but no docs. So I turned on the camera, and ran it from the > cli. I found the camera, and generated a file, but it never started the > camera in playback mode. Ack the manpage it needed a -i option. And I > see that Dan Dennedy wrote both, so its possible that kino uses dvgrab > to do the capture, Interesting. And you, Victor, should look at > kino. :)
I’m glad you sort of made it work! Interactive camera controls are indeed behind the -i option in dvgrab. And you’re right, dvgrab can’t edit, it’s just an acquisition tool. I tried Kino some 10 years ago. I remember being a bit frustrated by frequent crashes and editing oddities. Your recommandation made me curious so I just checked Kino’s website. The last news dates back from 2013 and reads: > "Kino is a dead project > ( 05.08.2013 14:15 ) > Kino has not been actively maintained since 2009. We encourage you to > try other Linux video editors such as Shotcut, Kdenlive, Flowblade, > OpenShot, PiTiVi, LiVES, and LightWorks." In the last years I’ve been using Openshot for simple editing. It proved quite reliable. I also have an eye on PiTiVi but it still crashes too often on me. I haven’t tried the others in the list. For more complex stuff I managed to finish a couple of projects with Cinelerra, which could be worth considering as an option too. Cheers, Victor
