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. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You > This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details > its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative > solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Lives-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lives-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ Lives-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lives-users
