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RecordingVideoAndSound

Audigy Sound Card

   O     O      O     O      O 
  Dig   Line   Mic   Out1   Out2
  Out   In 

• http://alsa.opensrc.org/AudigyMixerControls#Analog_input_controls
  • Analog Mix Capture How much capture from analog sources (Line In, CD, Aux) or for Audigy 2 Platinium Ex from Line 1.

Record the captured video

• streamer is the program
• http://tldp.org/HOWTO/BTTV/recording.html
• cat /proc/asound/pcm

  • 00-00: emu10k1 : ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback : playback 32 : capture 1
    00-01: emu10k1 mic : Mic Capture : capture 1
    00-02: emu10k1 efx : Multichannel Capture/PT Playback : playback 8 : capture 1
    00-03: emu10k1 : Multichannel Playback : playback 1
    

• amixer -c 0 controls | grep -i capture

  • numid=7,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Capture Volume'
    numid=8,iface=MIXER,name='Synth Capture Volume'
    numid=16,iface=MIXER,name='Line2 Capture Volume'
    numid=10,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Capture Volume'
    numid=20,iface=MIXER,name='Aux2 Capture Volume'
    numid=14,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Optical Capture Volume'
    numid=18,iface=MIXER,name='Analog Mix Capture Volume'
    numid=12,iface=MIXER,name='Audigy CD Capture Volume'
    numid=30,iface=PCM,name='Captured FX8010 Outputs',device=2
    
• Used Line In (Mic sounds very bad)
• amixer -c 0 cset name='Analog Mix Capture Volume' 100
• BE CAREFUL! Starting tvtime resets the recording/playback levels!
• streamer -p 4 -t 2:00:00 -r 24 -q -o test.avi -j 90 -f mjpeg -F mono16
  • -t hh:mm:ss

Convert any video file to DVD with open source tools

• http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/04/17/2058219
• Be sure to use the NTSC settings - the page mostly describes PAL settings.
• mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -vf scale=720:480,harddup -srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=5000:keyint=18:aspect=4/3:acodec=ac3:abitrate=192 -ofps 30000/1001 -o test.mpg test.avi

Create the DVD

• Try using kmediafactory to build the dvd chapters & all (instead of just dvdauthor)
  • Be sure to set kmediafactory to NTSC mode!
  • kmediafactory sort of worked, but was very painful to use.
• Try using QDVDAuthor instead!

It worked!

• Main menu & chapter selection screens looked great
• Audio only came out of one speaker :(
  • B/C I only get mono out of the VCR (1 RCA output), I needed to get a rca->mono then add an adapter mono headphone->stereo
• Audio sounded pretty awful - fuzzy, rough on the ears
• Wouldn't play on my ancient DVD player, but it played fine on the PS2

Other DVD Applications
KMediaFactory is meant to be easy to use DVD authoring tool. It is NOT meant to be full blown DVD Authoring package. If template based menus are not enough or you want something different, check these sites:

    * Q DVD-Author
    * Polidori
    * DVD Styler
    * dvdauthor
    * Varsha
    * DVD Slideshow
    * KDE DVD Authoring Wizard
    * tovid

Video Editing

    * Kino
    * KDEnlive
    * LVE
    * Jashaka

Playing Videos

    * MPLayer
    * Xine

Other Video Tools

    * DVZEEC

Other notes Recording to DVD:

• Kino is supposed to be useful for video capture, but I didn't find it useful.
  • It turned my 4 gig file into to 19 gig files (16 hours later I still couldn't use it for anything!)

Kino to cinellera - cinellera uses .mov

• I didn't need to edit the video at all, fortunately.

• Converting to .mov Format
  To edit your files in Cinelerra you will need to convert them to a Quicktime format. I use the dv2mov program for this. (See the applications section). Simply type, "dv2mov inputfile.dv outputfile.mov" (replacing the filenames with real ones) and wait.
  Converting edited files back to .dv format
  
  Use the dvmov2dv program. The format is slightly different this time: "dvmov2dv inputfile.mov > outputfile.dv".