Need to do some Video Editing

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Jan 26, 2008 8:51 PM, Alan Dayley <alandd at consultpros.com> wrote:
> You are very correct, Kristian.  My wife and I have done just that from
> time to time.  I have since found that I prefer to stay with the MPEG
> format rather than convert back and forth on my way to a DVD.
>
> If one is more comfortable using Kino, the ability to import and use
> MPEG is a great feature.

Well, for that, there is mjpegtools...
root at khermans-laptop:~# aptitude show mjpegtools
Package: mjpegtools
State: not installed
Version: 1:1.8.0-0.2ubuntu5
Priority: optional
Section: multiverse/graphics
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu at lists.ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 1401k
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.13.2), libc6 (>= 2.6-1), libcairo2 (>= 1.4.0),
         libdv4, libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.3.5), libgcc1 (>=
         1:4.2.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libjpeg62,
         libmjpegtools0c2a (>= 1:1.8.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.18.2), libpng12-0
         (>= 1.2.13-4), libquicktime1 (>= 2:1.0.0+debian), libsdl1.2debian (>=
         1.2.10-1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1), libx11-6, libxcomposite1 (>=
         1:0.3-1), libxcursor1 (> 1.1.2), libxdamage1 (>= 1:1.1), libxext6,
         libxfixes3 (>= 1:4.0.1), libxi6, libxinerama1, libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.0),
         libxrender1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-1), bc
Suggests: sox, toolame, mpeg2dec, a52dec
Conflicts: dvb-mpegtools
Description: MJPEG video capture/editting/playback MPEG encoding
 The mjpeg programs are a set of tools that can do recording of videos and
 playback, simple cut-and-paste editing and the MPEG compression of audio and
 video under Linux. This package combines them with important supporting
 libraries required for their use.

 The "lavrec" utility supplied supports capture from Zoran based MJPEG
 capture/playback cards like the Buz (Iomega), DC10 (MIRO, Pinnacle) and the
 LML33 (Linux Media Labs). Compatible MJPEG avi files can also be created using
 any frame-grabbing card supported by the xawtv tool.

 Videos recorded in this can be filtered, editted, and converted to MPEG
 streams. The MPEG encoder is optimised for high quality results at medium to
 high bit-rates (1Mbps upwards) and supports MMX/SSE/3D-Now and SMP. A Duron 700
 can deliver around 15-20 352x288 frames per second.

 A key design objective of the tools is interoperability with other video tools:
 currently xawtv, bcast2000, nuppelvideo and vcdimager are known to
 interoperate. The MJPEG utilities can read AVI, Quicktime, and movtar streams.
 The MPEG encoder can produce streams suitable for buring to VCD/SVCD using
 vcdimager or similar tools. The software playback of MPEG streams works with
 almost every player and every OS. SSE/MMX and 3D-Now! are supported permitting
 a 700Mhz CPU to deliver arond 15-20 VCD frames/second.
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen
"Know something about everything and everything about something."