Comments on: Video cameras and Linux

By: Dan Dennedy

Dan Dennedy — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 04:15:04 +0000

ffmpeg2theora is the best solution. Kino comes with an export script that will use it once installed.

By: byte

byte — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:35:39 +0000

Thanks Stewart & Andrew Z. I guess I’ll go shopping for a DV cam since most work.

But still doesn’t give me a solution to what was used to make the OGG videos…

By: Andrew Z

Andrew Z — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:52:41 +0000

For streaming, and OGG and such, you would need some extra software. Usually video is recorded in a super-high-bitrate DV format and is later encoded to MPEG2/whatever. I think maybe Kino and Cinelerra do Ogg, but you’d have to check. For streaming, maybe VLC?

By: Andrew Z

Andrew Z — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:50:40 +0000

Any DV/firewire camcorder should work. I use Kino mostly. It’s easy and does most things well. Cinelerra is more powerful but harder to understand.

By: Stewart Smith

Stewart Smith — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:58:53 +0000

Cinelerra is pretty neat for editing.