Problems with video conversion temp files

[Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO]

 http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/13/2129256
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Leo Mauler
>Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 4:45 PM
>
>I've been looking into doing some video editing in Linux. I 
>have a video a friend of mine in Colorado took of our wedding. 
> He digitized it and sent it to me awhile back (2000), before 
>he had a DVD burner, so its about two hours of video on two CDs.  
>
>So I thought I'd see if I could do what needed to be done to 
>make a DVD out of it to pass on to the relatives.  My best 
>man's wedding toast is on it and he was rather good, so I also 
>wanted to strip off the audio as its own file.
>
>I wanted to load the first hour of video into Kino (Kino was 
>on the Debian package repository), so I told Kino to import 
>the video (about 650MB AVI).  About an hour later it had 
>filled up the 8GB left in /home and wanted more.  What I 
>didn't read in the documentation is that Kino only works with 
>DV files which are uncompressed audio and uncompressed video, 
>and "importing" means it will convert compressed audio/video 
>files into uncompressed DV files.
>
>So I stopped Kino, and deleted the temp file it had created.  
>The problem is that the temp file didn't go away.  I did "ls 
>-lahR | less" and checked all the file sizes, and nothing was 
>7.9GB or anywhere near that size.  Processes attached to my 
>account were crashing all over the place, since they couldn't 
>save their config files.
>
>Eventually I had to reboot and that fixed the problem, but I 
>wanted to know if anyone knew of a solution that didn't 
>require rebooting?
>
>Incidentally, what does work for home video editing (and is 
>also on the standard Debian package
>repository) is: Avidemux (you might see it listed as 
>Avidemux2).  If any of you have used VirtualDub in Windows, 
>Avidemux is VirtualDub, except I found Avidemux a little 
>easier to figure out.  Avidemux is available for Windows too.  
>Converts, edits, strips out audio as its own file, all the 
>stuff a home user needs.