On 4/21/06, Florin Andrei <florin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 18:19 -0400, Mike Chalmers wrote: > > > What is the difference between Kino and dvgrab? Does dvgrab not have a > > gui? > > dvgrab is strictly a command-line capture utility. > Kino is a full-fledged video processing GUI application, that can > capture, edit, transcode and apply effects. > > > How do I install Kino (I didn't see it in the add/remove programs > > utility)? > > There's an RPM package for FC5 on Livna. Just enable the Livna repo and > then do a "yum install kino" > > http://rpm.livna.org/configuration.html#Core5 > > Perhaps there are other repositories as well that carry Kino RPM > packages for Fedora. Google is your friend. > > > When Kino is installed will I be able to setup capture from > > my camcorder to the hard drive (making it an .avi) using a gui, > > because that would make it easier? > > Kino can also capture video from a DV source, just like dvgrab: either > in raw format, or in several variations of AVI encapsulations. Both > applications are part of the same project, with dvgrab as a lightweight > capture-only spin-off. > > http://www.kinodv.org/ > > If you follow the process "capture everything, then process later" then > the presence or absence of a GUI during capture does not make any > difference - since you capture _everything_, the whole tape, from one > end to the other. Perhaps it sounds counter-intuitive, but it's true. > Even Kino or other GUI apps are built with this kind of process in mind. > > dvgrab uses fewer resources than any GUI application and that can lead > to fewer situations where your system drops frames during capture, which > would require a restart of the process. > > -- > Florin Andrei > > http://florin.myip.org/ > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Hi, Thank you for the help. I got Kino installed and am trying to learn how to use it. From, Mike
