Archive for the 'Video' Category

Couldn’t open: /dev/mga_vid, Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.

Friday, January 12th, 2007

Couldn’t open: /dev/mga_vid, Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
i u got this error while trying mplayer to play video on Linux (Kubuntu, Ubuntu or other).

The solution is very simple:
Right click on mplayer window, go to preferences and oopen Video tab and choose correct driver. If you use OpenGL gl driver should be OK.

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How to convert raw to dv2 avi.

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

I was looking for a solution, how to convert raw to dv2 avi, and finally man dvgrab helped me!

Solution is quite fast and simple:
cat source.dv | dvgrab –stdin –autosplit –opendml –timestamp –format dv2 dv2source.avi

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