Converting Video Formats for use with Kino.

[andymelton]

I use my Sony Cybershot to record videos occasionally and I'd like to be able to edit them together using Kino.

In the man pages for Kino it says:

"DV is a special kind of video encoding, commonly used in digital camcorders. Differently coded movies, like DivX or mjpeg, need to be converted to DV before they can be fed into kino."

The videos are in mpeg format, I've been googling my brains out trying to find something to convert the mpegs to dv. Maybe there is something that I'm not getting about the formats. Oh, and I do see a lot of programs that will convert files from dv to whatever format you'd like.

Anyone got any suggestions. They'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[BrianF98]

DV = Digital Video. I googled for "mpg to digital video dv" and got a bunch of hits that looked like they might lead where you want to go. Be prepared for a substantial increase in file size. Mpg is compressed... DV is not.

[buddha]

Originally Posted by andymelton

The videos are in mpeg format, I've been googling my brains out trying to find something to convert the mpegs to dv.

ffmpeg is the best video codec/format converter I've found. It is a command line tool. You can use a simple command line like

ffmpeg -i input_file.mpg -target dv ouput_file.dv

to convert your mpegs to DV format. As the previous poster said, these DV files will be much bigger.

Kino actually should be able to import mpeg files and convert them for you (using mencoder) but I just tried that functionality and it didn't seem to work but I think I recall it has worked in the past.

Also, avidemux can import mpeg files and do some basic editing and conversion tasks. It won't output DV, but you might not need to convert to DV if you can edit the mpeg directly.

Both ffmpeg and avidemux are available in the livna repository.