Re: [OT] Re: casablanca
thanks for your response.
look down here further
Camaleón schreef:
On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:59:32 +0000, steef wrote:
hi all!
maybe this question does not belong on this maybe it does: however... as
a long time debian user i give it a try in the hope a kind soul can be
of some help
I'm earning points for my parcel at heaven O:-)
guess you do!
a friend of mine is a birdwatcher and makes movies of woodpeckers with
youngs in their nest; a tedious job of weeks of observation etc. with
three cameras in our sometime horrible dutch climate.
he tried to put the images of these three cameras together with a piece
of german hardware called casablanca running on opensource software
(guess what!) called bogart. the hd-capacity of the hardware is 500 GB.
type 2000S. software type unknown. he put the output-images (raw) an
enormous quantity of a couple of terabytes on 4 external hd's. he could
not open any of the images (collected in projects) anymore so he came to
me. with mplayer and some experiments in /etc/fstab and /mnt, gparted
and mkfs.ext3 i could mount some parts of one of the hdś and make the
images visible again on a partition in one of my machines, however,
without sound.
sorry for this long introduction.
Long introduction was required to fully understand the problematic.
Okay, Google returned this:
http://www.macrosystem.us/index.php?pr=S3000
i saw that one
So I think your friend's appliance would be similar (maybe an older
version).
correct
It seems to be a dedicated computer for managing (input/output)
high ammounts of multimedia data which uses its own software for handling
the files (import/export and editing operations).
correct too
The fact that your were able to reproduce the images but no sound it
could indicate the files are using an audio codec not installed in your
machine.
well: the reality knows more nuances. the files i can reproduce do not produce
environmental sounds. the files i cannot reproduce give one short image
followed by coloured 'rubble' (is that the proper term ?) and some
environmental sound. very funny indeed.
What's the output of "file" run over one of those raw files? Are they
video or just plain images? I ask this because sometimes, high-end
multimedia systems split video files in separate chuncks of video and
audio tracks for quick access and software manipulation.
these video-files are spilt in separate files; on their turn split in separate
chunks of about 7 or 8 GBs. mplayer opens them as raw files with the (ffmpeg)
mpeg2 codes.
my question: is there somebody out there who knows more of the
casablanca 2000S and the software called bogart?
I would also ask to the company tech support guys, they will provide more
information about the raw format used by Casablanca, audio and video
codecs, etc...
my brother did. the dutch importer was of good will; his representatives too
but they could not provide any help. the german chaps said bluntly they could
and would not provide any help. (they seem only to be happy to help their own
money-bags with opensource software).
I'll provide you with the output of the mplayer-console somewhat later today.
first i must startup our business again. tomorrow we start working all over in
a new year.
Greetings,
kind regards,
steef
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