[NTLUG:Discuss] Video Card with Svideo

MadHat madhat at unspecific.com
Tue Jan 21 13:31:37 CST 2003


On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 12:45, Dan Carlson wrote:
> Which capture card, software, format, and codec are you using?
> 
> I use the G400 with mjpeg-tools' lavrec to capture with the hardware motion
> jpeg codec in QuickTime format.  Then I use mjpeg-tools' glav to edit out
> commercials and use mjpeg-tools filter chain encode to MPEG-2 at half-D1
> resolution with a DVD profile.  This is all under linux.  I keep the mpgs
> on my server's hard drive for ready playback on computers with tv-out
> around the house.  Under Windows I use Ulead's DVD Workshop to author DVDs
> on DVD-R disks for playback in standalone DVD players.  It all works well
> and yields good results, but it is labor intensive and time-consuming.  So
> far I've focused mainly on archiving Star Trek TOS and TNG... ;)  I am
> interested in creating a more tivo-like setup for throw-away programming
> without the labor and time involved in editing and transcoding.

That is the part I have not messed with yet is the actual
recording/editing/playback.  Most of what I have been working on is
general functionality as far as displaying the video and playing some
games on the TV via wireless controls.  I don't have a DVD-R as of yet
:(.

I just started this last weekend, and found my hardware lacking.

I was looking at this article which is what started me thinking about
this a while back
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/computers/article/0,12543,385155,00.html
which lead me to these sites.
http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/
http://www.linuxdvb.tv/


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