GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 566069
[capture] IEEE 1394/FireWire device (e.g. video camera)
Last modified: 2014-01-05 19:45:08 UTC
As an enhancement, it would be good if PiTiVi supported import direct from IEEE 1394/FireWire (e.g. a video camera). Postings on the Web show users are using a two part process of initial capture from 1394 device (e.g. using dvgrab or kino) and then importing DV file and editing in PiTiVi, for example: http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/04/24/from-camera-to-website-building-an-open-source-video-streamer/ Gstreamer provides a source for 1394 DV capture: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-good-plugins/html/gst-plugins-good-plugins-dv1394src.html and DV demuxer and decoder: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-good-plugins/html/gst-plugins-good-plugins-dvdemux.html http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-good-plugins/html/gst-plugins-good-plugins-dvdec.html I would be a useful enhancement for PitiVi to use these Gstreamer plugins to import direct, providing similar functionality to kino: http://www.kinodv.org/article/static/2
It shouldn't be *too* hard to get the basics rolling for standard DV cameras. Adding auto-cut might be a tad trickier, just need to figure out how 'scene-changes' are notified by the demuxer.
It should be noted that kino is only minimally maintained these days, so sooner or later a replacement will be needed. If pitivi could offer this functionality, that would really be great.
This *must* be in for 0.13.3
Due to time constraints and the feedback we got from most users, I guess we'll defer this to some other release.
Okay, I think I'll close this now: - DV/Firewire is dead technology. There's not much point in touching this now. - It would complexify Pitivi's UI and codebase - This would be better done as a minimalist, specialized standalone app. As we are a small team with very limited resources, we sadly cannot implement every request. Since no patch/implementation was provided and there has not been a huge amount of interest in this particular feature, we will consider this to be out of scope.