Joshua N Pritikin (vishnu@xxxxxxxxx): > i tried <http://www.mainconcept.com/mainactor.shtml> but it isn't > working smoothly enough. i need to remix MPEG-1 from VCDs and burn > custom VCDs. MainActor is much too slow even my P-3 850MHz. What do you mean by too slow? You mean that seeking around and looking at frames is slow? How is it slow? I'm curious. One thing to keep in mind that MPEG-1 is compressed video with keyframes, and also lack of good timestamps. For a video editor to work correctly with MPEG-1 video directly it would probably have to prescan the whole file and mark keyframes for quick access, but decoding would still take alot of time. You might consider trying to dump the video maybe to huge uncompressed or RLE-encoded video files and edit with that (something like huffyuv), or recompress to a non-keyframe based codec like DV (but you'd have problems with the chroma if you're not careful). DV is much easier to edit since seeking is fast and to view a given frame you only need to decode that one frame. > No doubt professional video editing is available for Windows, but i > was hoping for a linux solution. For kicks you could try Cinelerra (http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3) but I don't think you should get your hopes up. -- Billy Biggs vektor@xxxxxxxxxxxx
