Ubuntu does not provide a FireWire/IEEE1394 capture user interface "out of the box"

Bug #707851 reported by Barry Drake
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
PiTiVi
Won't Fix
Wishlist
pitivi (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
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: natty
Barry Drake (b-drake)
tags: added: natty
Revision history for this message
Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo) wrote :

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.

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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