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MEETING MINUTES: - 
March 8th, 2003

Members attending the meeting included: Richard Foerster,  Jim Lucha,  Jerry Schnaus,  Jeff Lasman, Martin Fleming, Tom Nielsen, Dick Mathews,  Alan Shoemaker, Greg Rawson, Lisle Emerson, and her son Jacob.

 

Members not in attendance at this meeting included   , Don Evinger,  Mac Shaver, Martin Fleming, Klaus Herzog, Dick Mathews, Isaac Sladana,  Ossil Macavinta, Michael Karshner, Dana Rodin, Todd Lyons, Dave Reisz, Gary Taylor, Ken Howels,  Hung Nguyen, Kandy Phan, Tad Peters,  Forrest Sherman,  Craig Carignan, Donna Schrokosch, and  Jim Vassilako.   

 

Martin provided an interesting demonstration of his video editing and video conversion software using a Red-Hat 7.3 based Dell Precision notebook to show a recent project of converting PAL to NTSC on a video CD.   The CD’s were created using GNU VCDImager  which is a full-featured mastering suite for authoring, disassembling and analyzing Video CD's and Super Video CD's.  The core functionality consists of directly making Video CD BIN/CUE-style CD images from mpeg files, which (after being written to CDR(W) media) can be played on standalone VCD players or DVD players and on computers running GNU/Linux, MacOS  

Martin played back the video using XINE  which  is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available and some uncommon formats, as well.    Alan suggested that another program that could be used is OGLE  which is a DVD player for the Solaris, Linux and BSD environments released under the GNU Public License (GPL). Ogle is developed by a few students at Chalmers University of Technology.  It is said to be the first opensource DVD player to support DVD menus.

Martin did the basic editing using VirtualDub  which is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (98/NT/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).  It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video.  It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters.  VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.

Several members expressed interest in DVD video projects and recommended taking a look at offerings of SonicBLUE   - a leader in the converging Internet, digital media, entertainment and consumer electronics markets. Working with partners that include some of the biggest brands in consumer electronics, SONICblue creates and markets products that let consumers enjoy all the benefits of a digital home and connected lifestyle. SONICblue holds a focused technology portfolio that includes Rio® digital audio players; ReplayTV® personal television technology and software solutions; and GoVideo® integrated DVD+VCRs, Dual-Deck™ VCRs, and digital home theater systems.

All-in-all the meeting was a great success, and we are looking forward to our next meeting on April 12th, 2003.