Ubuntu does not provide a FireWire/IEEE1394 capture user interface "out of the box"
Bug #707851 reported by
Barry Drake
This bug affects 3 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PiTiVi |
Won't Fix
|
Wishlist
|
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| pitivi (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
|
Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: pitivi
Camcorder users require access to video capture via firewire. Natty has moved to PiTiVi which currently does not include video capture from a firewire source. The tour slideshow says that Ubuntu cn be used for captugin and editing video material. The only way I am aware of currently of doing this is to go back to Kino. I am aware that PiTiVi has some nice features compared with Kino, but until it includes video capture, Kino is an essential to Ubuntu.
| tags: | added: natty |
Revision history for this message
| Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo) wrote | #1 |
| summary: |
- Natty - no longer supports firewire video capture 'out of the box' + Ubuntu does not provide a FireWire/IEEE1394 capture user interface "out + of the box" |
| Changed in pitivi (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| Changed in pitivi: | |
| importance: | Unknown → Wishlist |
| status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
| Changed in pitivi: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Won't Fix |
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Just to point out two flaws in your logic:
- Kino was never included in the default install of Ubuntu, so there was never an app that could capture over firewire to begin with.
- Camcorder users do not necessarily use DV over Firewire. There are plenty of DVD camcorders and hard-disk camcorders, and photo cameras used as HD camcorders (so you dump the files directly from the memory card). Firewire/DV camcorders are a vanishingly small market segment. I'm not saying it is not important to support, but I'm just putting your claim in perspective; not everybody uses this.
Canonical is welcome to hire somebody to provide a patch to implement this feature in PiTiVi, otherwise it will not be done in the very-near-future.