[NTLUG:Discuss] Bye Bye Mickeysoft

[Dan Carlson]

For video capture I use mjpegtools' lavrec program with a Matrox G400 TV
board.

lavrec works fine for software capture (i.e. capturing off of a tuner or
dedicated capture boards that don't do compression in hardware).

It also works great with hardware motion-jpeg capture boards (i.e. boards
that do motion-jpeg compression in hardware).  The advantages of hardware
mjpeg capture compared to software capture are: Low cpu utilization, high
frame rate, high resolution, few dropped frames.

There are a number of boards that do hardware mjpeg, including the Matrox
G200 and G400 TV, Miro/Pinnacle DC10, and Iomega Buz.  While these are all
three to four year old products, they work great and you can still find
them on eBay for reasonable prices.

See both of these links for more info:

    http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/mjpeg

Motion-jpeg is a convenient format for editing.  I use mjpegtools' glav
program to edit captured video.  Then I use mpeg2enc to encode the edited
video to mpeg2.

Dan Carlson

----- Original Message -----
From: "TJ Davis" <TJDavis at sagu.edu>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 3:58 PM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Bye Bye Mickeysoft


> Here's the deal.  I just upgraded my machine at home to an Anthon XP
2000+
> and it is performing WAY better than my celeron 1.7ghz was.   I am
> dual-booting Windows and RedHat Linux 8.0 and Linux runs fine but Windows
is
> messing up on me.  It freezes up and reboots on its own free will and
> various other things that should never happen in any operating system.
Well
> I have finally decided that it is time to just wave adios and take the
> Windows boot line out of grub.conf (I know a lot of you still swear by
lilo
> but I'm trying to stay with the times) and convert /dev/hda1 from to
ext3,
> recovering the wasted disk space.  However I have a dilemma.  There are
two
> things that I cannot do effeciently in Linux yet so I am turning to NTLUG
> for some advice.
>
> (1)  I love playing around with video capturing and I have been playing
> around with XAWtv but it just is not doing the trick.  I am going to
check
> out Broadcast 2000 when I get   home this evening but I am not even sure
if
> it supports video capturing and it is not being developed any longer
> according to what I have read.
>
> (2)  This is pretty cheesy but I have not had much luck with cd burning
in
> Linux.  I know you have to install what seems to be a scsi compatibility
> layer if you are using IDE drives, which I am but I have only been able
to
> burn audio tools.  The only catch is that I refuse to use the command
line
> to burn cds.  I love it for most things but it just is not convenient
when
> burning cd's ( I dig the drag-n-drop feature).
>
> Anyways, I am asking for suggestions on these two things.  I'm even open
for
> another distro if someone knows of one that is geared towards multimedia.
> Thanks in advance as I know y'all will be a big help!  :-)
>
> T.J. Davis
> Southwestern A/G University
> Computer/Network Technician
> tjdavis at sagu.edu
> 1 Timothy 4:12
>
>


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