[LBo] Kino

[Andrew Henry]

Troy wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm running Ubuntu 6.10 and trying to capture video from my Canon Elura 40
> camcorder.  I installed Kino from the repository, but Kino (.9) continues to
> freeze when capturing.  I ran Ubuntu 7.04 from the live CD, installed Kino(a
> newer version from the 6.10 repository), and was able to capture video.  At
> this time I don't want to upgrade my distro, so how can I get install the
> latest version of Kino?  The Kino web site has a .tar.gz file available, but
> I've yet to install a package from outside of the repository.
>
> In lieu of upgrading Kino, does anyone know of another application I can use
> under Ubuntu to capture video?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Troy
>   
Hi Troy,

From what you have said, you either do not feel comfortable with the
command line and have never tried installing packages manually.  You can
build your own package with checkinstall or using debian packaging
tools, but this adds complexity and is not really needed. 
Unfortunately, I cannot recommend any other GUI tool, as Kino is the
best DV grabber out there as far as GUIs go.  It uses dvgrab as the
backend, which is a command line program, and sorry, but there is no
real way of getting around the command line if you want a newer Kino
version without upgrading your distro.

So, I recommend either reading up on dvgrab, and capturing video from
the command line (this is quite involved unfortunately), or installing
Kino 1.0 by hand from kinodv.org.  If you download the tar.gz package
from their website, you can hopefully get away with simply extracting
the tar file and running make as follows:

tar -xvf <filename.tar.gz>         #write actual file name instead of
brackets in this example
cd <filename>                           #write actual file name instead
of brackets in this example
make
make install

Note!  I would strongly recommend installing the older version of Kino
from your distros repositories to satisfy the Kino dependencies.  I do
not think the dependencies have changed much if at all since 0.8.

This will not create a package, but it will install the software and it
bypasses the added confusion of having to create a DEB package, which is
not really needed unless you plan on distributing it later.  Even if you
did build a package using checkinstall, it's not like your package
manager would detect patches/upgrades for your custom built package
anyway, unless you were very thorough in building it, so it's a bit
pointless in this case to build a package.

You will need to log out and log in again for the Kino icon to launch
the newer version.

--andrew

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