[linux-audio-dev] Lionstracs / Linux Audio at Musikmesse report

[Maarten de Boer]

> The problem is that the guy that took the video used a camcorder with 
> firewire output, he is not a Linux expert, he uses windows on his PC
> which has very to easy tools to transfer the videos to the PC and make a 
> video file out of it.

On Linux, kino will do this just fine, with a nice GUI.

Or, on the command-line, dvgrab, lav2yuv, yuvdenoise, mpeg2enc, lav2wav
mp2enc, mplex.

> I'm against proprietary formats too but unfortunately there is no 
> pratical alternative yet (a format that can be easily viewed by anyone).

How about VCD compatible mpeg? That should be possible to view natively
on all platforms, right?

maarten