[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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`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here...'
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