[Capture] Support DVD cameras and cut/capture of chapters
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Description
I used a Sony DVD Handycam to record video on my 7-month OE. It takes mini-DVDs. This was great in most respects, as it meant that I could:
- make backup copies to full-sized DVDs at internet cafes without installing software;
- play the videos back in hostel DVD players;
- toggle the subtitles on and off in a DVD player to have the time and date of recording on screen;
- etc.
The big difficulty is that, now that I am home, I have a stack of DVDs and it is very hard to import them into a video editing program to edit them. I have spent a lot of time ripping them perfectly to .iso images on my HTPC, so it would be great if any import "wizard" could handle .iso files as well as DVD discs.
I understand that each clip (from when you hit record until you hit stop) is a separate chapter and each time that you take the disc out and put it back in is a separate title (I also think that, if you have too many chapters, it will start a new title even if you don't take the disc out). This makes working with the .VOB files a very unsatisfactory way to edit the movies. Ideally such an import would keep the video in its native MPEG format, so that there was no quality loss through transcoding.
The best example of such a wizard that I can find is that of Roxio Easy Media Creator, described here:
http://www.jakeludington.com/roxio/20071029_editing_dvd_camcorder_movies_with_easy_media_creator.html
All of my DVDs are too big to post (1.4GB), so I will try to record something short so that you have something to work with. The camera is my mother's, however, so I'll do it when I am next there.
I am more than happy to help with any work in this direction.
Imported from https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584984