video capture software?

[sporkit]

i did a search on this and only found posts with people who have problems with their software. im just wondering what is a good program that would let me capture .avi and all that good stuff.

oh and while im at it. whats the best video editing software on linux?

[Mnemonic]

If you have XawTV, you can capture directly from there. However, you can grab mjpegtools. The latter of the two works from the CLI, but has a lot of flexibility and good documentation. It does have a simple GUI editor to handle what you have captured.

[sporkit]

Originally posted by Mnemonic
If you have XawTV, you can capture directly from there. However, you can grab mjpegtools. The latter of the two works from the CLI, but has a lot of flexibility and good documentation. It does have a simple GUI editor to handle what you have captured.

hrmmmm. i checked out that program on freshmeat.org and their site is down. any idea where i could find XawTV?

[scsa20]

Originally posted by sporkit150
hrmmmm. i checked out that program on freshmeat.org and their site is down. any idea where i could find XawTV?

the URL is freshmeat.net, not .org ;)