As there was another post on The Planet about non-kde applications, let me jump in…

My favorite non-kde app is Kino, although it starts with a K, it isn’t KDE. It is an application I use to grab video from my firewire connected digital video camera. Yes, I had to remove some dust from it, before I could use it.

I had a couple of tapes lying around and I wanted to get them on my computer. Installation was a as expected: needed to load some kernel modules, sort out the permissions of the /dev/raw1394 device and install Kino again.

This is how Kino looks:
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On the left you get all the different pieces you shot. So you can arrange them quickly in a different order. Also it is possible to change easily the starting and end point of the section. Those are the things I need and Kino does the trick.

In no time I sorted out the tapes which I had. Kino is really good in what it does, I also would like something simple with the Qt toolkit. When Phonon is ready, I’ve switched to KDE4 and nobody has beaten me, I could give it a…shot…

Last part was about installing, this part is all about command line options. First take a look at the output from regular cmake, building RSIBreak:

Last few days I’ve played with CMake to learn it as KDE will use it a lot in the future. To motivate others, I will write it down a bit, so others can benefit.

Today, installing and using.

To install CMake and have all the nice new features (colorfull output for example) you can compile it from cvs:


cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@www.cmake.org:/cvsroot/CMake login


The password is cmake. After that do a checkout via:


cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@www.cmake.org:/cvsroot/CMake co CMake


After the checkout you can build and install it with:

./bootstrap
make
make install


So. All set. Now off to build something. I used to build everything in the source folder, but as a lot of people tell me that is not the way to go, I decided this was a good moment to switch to build it in a seperate folder then the source. To do this, you make a build folder, cd into it and enter:


cmake /path/to/source


After this you can type ‘make’ to start compilation as usual and ‘make install’ to install. That was easy!

More later this week…