Notes about the kino Debian package ----------------------------------- To export movies to a DV camcorder, kino uses the TALK_QUEUE_BUFFER extension of the video1394 API. They are included in the mainline Linux kernel starting with version 2.4.7. If you receive an error when trying to capture video via the IEEE1394 interface, make that you have read and write permissions on /dev/video1394. If you don't, I recommend to perform the following steps as the root user: * Change ownership to group video: chown root:video /dev/video1394 * Grant access to any user in group video: chmod 660 /dev/video1394 * Add certain users (user 'blarf' in this example) to group video: adduser blarf video After the next login, user 'blarf' should be able to capture via the IEEE1394 interface. Most advanced video export capabilities make use of helper applications from the mjpegtools (http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/) and ffmpeg (http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net) packages. At the time of writing, only ffmpeg packages are available in Debian proper. Unofficial Debian packages for mjpegtools are available at ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/. Recently, mjpegtools have repeatedly changed their commandline tool used in kino for export to DivX. The default configuration supplied in this package is correct for mjpegtools versions up to 1.6.1. If you run later versions, please read up in the mjpegtools documentation for the proper commandline and change the export filter in the kino preferences accordingly. MP3 export uses lame, available from http://www.mp3dev.org/. Header files to build kino plugins with are installed in /usr/include/kino/; kino now looks for plugins in /usr/lib/kino-gtk2, whereas versions prior to 0.70 had used /usr/lib/kino. The kinoplus, timfx, and dvtitler plugins are available as Debian packages already. See the kinoplus, kino-timfx, and kino-dvtitler packages respectively. Daniel Kobras 2004-03-06.