Adept alert..

Well, as an obvious Linux evangelist, can you tell me of a Linux application that will take a TS video stream and convert it to MPEG and a usable video editor that doesn't look and work like a toy from Toys "R" Us?

Would that be multiplexed?

Do you need audio sync too? ;-)

In message , "dennis@home" writes

Yes

Yes

You don't have any like that on Windows.

Try FinalCut Pro

I thought TS was an envelope for mpeg??

Anyway ffmpeg will do this and is used professionally but the firms that do it have their own script wallahs to call the commandline. I was with a lad on Saturday who has this job to massage advert videos post shooting.

AJH

Sorry, I forgot to pick you up on this one. I'm far from a "Linux evangelist", I suggest you learn to read the headers to a Usenet post.

When you say "editor" what do you want from the editor, simple edits or the full professional bells and whistles? For the former MPEG Streamclip does a very good job of editing TS files. If you mean the latter then Windows really doesn't offer much of any value anyway, so I'd say use Avid or Final Cut Pro on a Mac as most professionals do.

Good packages on Linux are Cinelerra, Kdenlive, Kino and LiVES.

Windows can run *applications* that aren't available for Linux, that's the biggest issue in converting.

There's little if anything else that Windows can do that Linux can't.

It's getting (a lot) better. Ubuntu 11.04 "out of the box" on a 5yr old low end Thinkpad booted and worked, even finding the correct drivers for the wireless and connecting to the network.

It was a dismal failure last time i tried. It seems things are actually moving in the right direction at last.

I can almost a damascene conversion coming on.

It does now, for me at least.

Even the application I require most (Microchip MPLAB IDE) now has a beta version for Linux.

MBQ