I record video from local broadcast using my Hauppauge PVR250, however, editing that still seems troublesome. AvidEmux seems to screw up the timing between audio and video.

Kino, which used to work great on my DV from my camcorder, crashes when playing the imported MPEG (which takes up tons of space), and crashes now when trying to import from DV. (Something about the FW stack in Fedora, bugged it, but never got any response. dvgrab works to get my video in, so I'll continue to use it until someone ports the code that works from dvgrab to kino.

Pitivi also crashes, but surprisingly on startup.

Now some might think it is related to my machine, except this exact same set of circumstances happens no matter which of 2 machines I use.

So instead I just use mplayer and mencoder, they both have worked like a charm previously and still do.

Here's the command line I use to edit a section of video out of a long recording.

mencoder news.mpg -vf scale -zoom -xy 320 -ss 00:18:37 -endpos 2:07 -o newsstory2.mpg -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=1:vbitrate=600

Mostly this page is to remind me how to do it next time as I don't record all that much video anymore. MythTV is great, but having time to watch TV is so scarce that I don't even fool myself anymore.