Problems with video conversion temp files

[Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO]

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Linux_distro_targets_serious_multimedia_proje
cts
http://desktoplinux.com/news/NS5486057047.html

Cinellera is a video editing program I was trying to think of.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kelsay, Brian
>Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 8:00 AM

>
> http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/13/2129256
>Easy video creation using only FOSS software Make sure to read 
>through the comments.
>
>
>>-----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.
>