Open Source Video

Projective HTML5 Video using Canvas API

Read original post on Narendra Sisodiya’s blog:
TechFandu : Tips and Tricks in Computer

“When I saw, Projective Texturing with Canvas by Steven Wittens http://acko.net/blog/projective-texturing-with-canvas, I was amazed.”

“Yesterdaynight I was trying to same with Video using SVG. SVG has affine transformation but clipping part was difficult. So I modified the Original source code by Steven. Believe [...]

raw1394 module … encore

After installing Ubuntu 9.04 from scratch, I have had some bad flashbacks to the zillion times this problem occurred before in previous sytem installations.

Capturing in Kino / dvgrab does not work because the /dev/raw1394 module is not loaded and I, as a user, have no write permissions.

I found the following post helpful. It explains how [...]

Video tag with Cortado fallback

I used this extended video tag from Theora.org to display Ogg/Theora video’s on my work blog. Works great.

<video src=”http://www.archive.org/download/Rooms_Rules_Roles/Rooms_Roles_Rules.ogv” width=”352″ height=”288″>
<applet code=”com.fluendo.player.Cortado.class” archive=”http://theora.org/cortado.jar” width=”352″ height=”288″>
<param name=”url” value=”http://www.archive.org/download/Rooms_Rules_Roles/Rooms_Roles_Rules.ogv”/>
</applet>
</video>

Crazed Cinelerra 1080P

Dealing with a new media format in Linux and Cinelerra is never easy. But if you have patience, it is very satisfying to get a project done that makes your friends say “Wow” or have a laugh.
Cinelerra enthusiast the Mule bought himself a new Canon 5D still-image camera and posts findings of his experiments with [...]

Tips for Transcoding Cinelerra Compatible Video with FFmpeg, MEncoder

Alexander Grundner is a San Francisco Peninsula based web publisher who likes to play with Linux in his free time. He posts some tips on transcoding video on his blog that might be helpfull for all you Cinelerra lovers.
Thanks Doma

Mapping AV streams to DVD

I edited a film in Cinelerra, and rendered it as a QTfor Linux file, settings: Sound ‘two complements’ Video ‘DV’
The soundtrack was exported seperately as Wav files, with exactly the same length.
I wanted to replace the original sound with the soundtrack, and used ffmpeg to mux the files and convert them to a dvd [...]

FOSS Codecs for Online Video

FOSS Codecs for Online Video: Usability, Uptake and Development
An excellent overview of the best available tools for the creation, playback and embedding of online video using Free and Open Source Software video codecs, and a set of recommendations for development to enhance their adoption by social change video projects on the web.
Input was requested [...]

Two screen / dual-head set up

Super handy when working with a timeline / viewer editing software is a set up with several screens. I am busy with an elaborate project in Cinelerra, and scrolling through an endless timeline in a too small window is the last thing I need. A widescreen setup and being able to drag files from one [...]

Firewire problem 2: solved

Trying to analyse why my firewirecard does not detect my camera:
the ieee card seems to be recognised: I used lspci
(man lspci describes lspci as “a utility for displaying information about all PCI buses in the system and all devices connected to them. It shows a brief list of devices”).
~$ lspci | grep IEEE1394
0000:00:0a.0 FireWire [...]

Firewire problem 1

I have been using Kino and Cinelerra for almost a year. Until now, I never had to export video to tape. At this moment I am working on a video project that requires me to do that, so I have been trying to get the export settings in Kino to work. Replacing the default dv1394 [...]