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Compiling Kino from Scratch (Version 1.1.1)

This guide will walk you through how to install the latest version of Kino as of August 22, 2007. It should work for newer versions as well as they are developed (Kino 1.1.1 was release on July 8, 2007).

If you don’t already have it, download the Nautilus Open Terminal tool by typing “sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal” in the terminal. Note: You may need to restart nautilus to take advantage of the new menu item. Continuing on…

1.) Download it somewhere on your hard drive (preferably someplace easy to find) by using this link:

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/kino/kino-1.1.1.tar.gz

2.) Extract the kino-1.1.1.tar.gz archive by right clicking and select “Extract Here”. A folder called “Kino-1.1.1″ will appear.

3.) Open kino-1.1.1 and right click anywhere and select “Open Terminal Here”.

4.) Build the dependancies in the terminal:

sudo apt-get build-dep kino

5.) Get the libiec61883-dev package that the dependency build missed:

sudo apt-get install libiec61883-dev

6.) Install it by enterning these commands one by one:

sudo ./configure

sudo make

sudo make install

7.) Start Kino by going to Applications->Sound and Video->Kino

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Extra Guide:

If you’re having problems in getting your DV Camcorder to be recognized by Kino, or you’re getting some annoying message saying something about ” ieee 1394 subsystem is not responding”, then you can take these steps to get it working. At least they worked for me.

Step 1: Edit /etc/modules:

sudo gedit /etc/modules

Step 2: Add the raw1394 and video1394 modules into the bottom of the page:

raw1394

video1394

Step 3: Load the modules without restarting by typing these lines into the terminal:

modprobe raw1394

modprobe video1394

Step 4: Give yourself read/write access to the modules:

sudo chmod a+rw /dev/*1394

Re-open Kino and you should be good to go. If I’ve missed something, just let me know in the comments.  If this was successful for you, just let me know in the comments.  Thanks!

Sources:

http://www.bxlug.be/en/articles/220

SoundConverter…

Here’s an application that deserves much more attention in my opinion:

SoundConverter

The sound conversion application for the GNOME environment. It reads anything the GStreamer library can read (Ogg Vorbis, AAC, MP3, FLAC, WAV, AVI, MPEG, MOV, M4A, AC3, DTS, ALAC, MPC, Shorten, APE, SID, etc…), and writes WAV, FLAC, MP3, and Ogg Vorbis files.

Search for Specific Files Fast

I ran across an instance where I needed to record all occurrences of a specific file type into a text file so that I could review it later on. In order to do this, I used this command in the terminal:

find -name *.wma > wma.txt

Simple, short, and to the point but I easily forgot how to do it until I looked at my history. So, I wanted it to be recorded here for future times.

Music Organization Spree

I have been spending a ton of time within the EasyTag program organizing all of my 30GB+ music collection. I’ve done extensive detective work on all of my files and made my collection as accurate as possible including album art for every song. As the name suggests, it has been pretty easy to tag my collection, however, it is time consuming. The CDDB look-up function has helped save some time, but it doesn’t really help for the single, “orphan” songs. So far, I have gotten through about 75% 100% of my collection and when I’m finished it will be it is the cleanest, most complete music library that I know of. My brothers will be envious. The final score: 5340 tracks, totaling 24.2GB after cleaning up about 12GB worth of bad, unwanted music. That’s 1 week and 5 days worth of music.

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