From: CAULIER G. <cau...@fr...> - 2003-06-25 11:17:55
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Le Mercredi 25 Juin 2003 12:45, Rolf Dubitzky a =E9crit : > Grabbing is almost working. Excelent !!! I'm very impatient to test this new feature... > The infrastructure is there which is the most > imporant thing, since the ieee1394 interface an also the realtime > requirement of the grabbing process requires a multi threaded environment. > Already available is a utility 'pgrab' that lets you connect to your VCR > and start/stop/wind it. You can either watch the video stream or write it > to a file (or both). The only thing left to do is to integrate this into > piave (btw, i would like to rename the piave server process from 'piave' = to > 'piaved' to indicate that it is a demon, what do you think?). I will add a > bunch of new VEML commands, like > <AvcPlay/> > <AvcStop/> > <AvcStartCapture/> > <AvcSeekTimeCode time=3D"12:34:56.12" /> > ... > There will also be a number of more complicated commands like > <AvcGetDevices> > where piave will answer something like > <reply ....> > <avcdevice>SONY DCR-30</avcdevice> > <avcdevice>Panasonic XV12</avcdevice> > </reply> > The most complicated command will probably be > <AvcStartTapeAnalysis> > where the answer will be a list of recordings on the tape. Eventually I > would like kdenlive to provide a dialog where I can see all the scenes on > the physical tape and then select (checkbox) which ones to capture. Good idea. I think Piave must grab just the first frame of each scene.=20 Kdenlive will show this grab on a dialog box... What do think about ? > > On very important (and technically challenging) thing is how to get small > previews of frames into kdenlive. In a temporay folder on the hdd ? > We need them in the timeline and also in > the tape-analysis dialog. Last time we talked about it we thought about a > pipe in the filesystem. I have no better idea up to now so I will start to > look into pipes. Any better ideas? =2D-=20 CAULIER Gilles |