On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 07:30 +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> On Sat, March 5, 2011 03:04, Patrick Millius wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 13:08 +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> >> On Fri, March 4, 2011 03:19, Patrick Millius wrote:
> >> > I seem to have lost the ability to import mp3 audio files as a clip in
> >> > multitrack mode. I was able to with LiVEs 3.11 svn. Now I have to
> >> > generate frames and add audio to a blank clip, then synch that in
> >> > multitrack mode. This is cumbersome (and time consuming) when
> >> capturing
> >> > analog video.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Works fine for me. What error are you seeing ?
> >
> > Sorry for duplicate message: I get the "does not appear to be a video
> > file" error. this has only been an issue since upgrading to the new svn
> > (4.1) worked fine in 3.11
> 
> If you start lives from a terminal, what do you see on there ?

> LiVES 1.4.1
Copyright 2002-2010 Gabriel Finch ([email protected]) and others.
LiVES comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details.

and in the box under the gui
;
Starting...
Successfully loaded 139 Weed filters
Loading default keymap
from /home/millius/.lives-dir/default.keymap...done.

Checking optional
dependencies:mplayer...detected...convert...detected...composite...detected...sox...detected
cdda2wav...detected...jackd...detected...pulse
audio...detected...python...detected...dvgrab...detected...xwininfo...detected...

Window manager reports as "compiz"; number of monitors detected: 1
Temp directory is /home/millius/livestmp/
Compiled with jack support, good !
Compiled with pulse audio support, wonderful !
Welcome to LiVES version 1.4.1.

Autoloading set audio...2 clips were recovered from set (audio).

==============================
Switched to clip Untitled3 (audio)
  >>>PS (audio) is the name of the clip
> >> > I have been working around mencoder wanting to open the TV card as PAL
> >> > broadcast by using xawtv as the player whilst recording live input,
> >> then
> >> > switching back to usr/bin/mencoder for adding audio, or editng tracks
> >> > with audio. Xawtv crashes everything if you open an audio file. It
> >> does,
> >> > however let one access the TV card input settings. TvTime works too,
> >> but
> >> > is more picky what order things are opened.
> >
> >> Is that the problem then, that mplayer is defaulting to PAL intead of
> >> NTSC
> >> for you ? How about if you set the width, height and fps in LiVES ?
> >
> > Yes and No. Yes mplayer defaults to PAL which makes sense, based on the
> > geograpy. Mplayer doesn't seen to have a way to change the default thru
> > GUI and I don't know where to find the lines of code to change from PAL
> > and "input0" to NTSC and "input1" That's all it would take. Two lines of
> > code. If only I knew where. I tried launchpad and mencoder's site
> > forums, but no luck so far.
> >
> 
> Well, you can set the input number in the advanced settings. Is this not
> working ?

Yes,Sorry I forgot I can change the input to composite (input1) under
advanced settings; However the TV card still tries to read everything as
PAL
> 
> Also there should be no need to set NTSC, as this is just 30 fps with a
> frame size of 720 z 480.

I will try those settings and see how it works out
Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> > Changing the width height, fps etc in LiVEs doesn't do much; the card is
> > being opened in the wrong format by Mencoder/mplayer. Lives just tries
> > and do the best it can with the corrupt data Mplayer sends it. The
> > reason the capture card works for me with xawtv or tvtime set as the
> > player for LiVes is both of those apps let me to the card's input
> > settings. Again, somewhere there are two lines I could change in
> > Mplayer/mencoder, but I don't seem to be able to find them.
> >
> >> > I have been able to do some pretty good capture, considering it all is
> >> > old magnetic tape I'm sourcing from. Audio synch isn't too hard if one
> >> > can open audio files as clips...>
> >> > Any hope for audio support in live input recording?
> >> >
> >> I don't know...did you create a feature request for it ?
> > Didn't even think of that. Do I do that thru the LiVEs website, then?
> >
> 
> Yes, there is a link on the "support" page.
> 
> 
> Gabriel.
> 
> 
> 
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