I've got Xawtv running, but can't capture images or avi files.
You actually can, xawtv comes with a binary called streamer, which can be used to capture whatever is available to the tuner. Example usage can be grabbed from
streamer --help, although examples for MJPEG are not provided, since MJPEGTOOLS must be installed. It can be found
here.
Here's an example for ya:
streamer -t mm:ss -s 320x240 -r 25 -o some.avi -f mjpeg -j 75 -F stereo
This will:
- record hh:mm worth of input (ie: 00:20 for 20 seconds)
- record at a size of 320x240
- record at a frame rate of 25 fps (default NTSC, the North American standard, is 29.97)
- use the mjpeg codec
- use a jpeg quality of 75 of a possible 100
- record sound to stereo 2 (channels).
Once you have capture the stuff to an avi file, you can use
glav, which is part of mjpegtools, to edit the video. I haven't had a lot of success with video over 40 minutes in length using glav, but it hasn't been that important to me, and may have been fixed already. It has a really simple interface on how you can use it to edit out commercials and such. Rudimentary cuts. Note that glav saves a configuration to a file, it does not in any way modify the video file. Once you have used glav to edit it, you can then use lavtrans to apply your cuts. You can find basically all the documentation you need for this
here.
EDIT: Note: Cinelerra is designed for broadcast level stuff, but I have a very hard time getting it to run stably. I'm not sure if this is simply a lack of effort on my part, but basically, I am fine with fine cuts using glav.
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