Re: [MLUG] Video capture with Linux - THANKS

[Mark Haidekker <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Thanks, Mark for this extensive review. This will help greatly.

Mark


On Wed December 14 2005 15:26, Mark Rages wrote:
> On 12/14/05, Mark Haidekker <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > does anybody have experience with video capture hardware/software?
> >
> > I'd like to capture frames from a normal composite video camera and
> > display them. However, I'd also like to do some on-the-fly image
> > processing, for example determine the center and beam diameter of a laser
> > beam. So what I'd need is some good GPL API to work with. SANE would not
> > do that, right? Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
>
> For work, I use Kino.  I've modified it to do the following image
> processing while capturing:
>
> 1) mirror (left-right)
> 2) mpeg2 encoding
> 3) gamma adjustment
> 4) inverse telecine (only useful for film capture).
> 5) histogram / vectorscope display
> 6) buffer status display
>
> All of this stuff was hacked into Kino in the most ugly way
> imaginable.  Kino is well written C++ and I think the laser beam
> tracking would be fairly simple to do.
>
> To use Kino, you'll need to put DV into the computer.  A common source
> is a digital camcorder.  Many camcorders will also convert composite
> to DV, or you can buy a black box from Canopus for this purpose.
>
> If a command-line system meets your requirements, you could use ffmpeg
> and its "vhook" API.  It is quite simple to code simple video filters
> to that API.
>
> There are a lot of buggy and crashy Linux video editors out there.
> Kino is stable, at least.
>
> Regards,
> Mark
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