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 filesizes, 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.

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