On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:49:40 -0700 Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 14:40 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > > I am unclear what you mean here. what is a "Analog to Digital S-VHS > > converter." I suspect it has RCA analog video in, but what comes out? > > is > > it DV (like a DV camera format)? > > > > If so I suspect you will ned up with a DV format file on your > > computer, > > not sure if you can see that "live" but it might in kino. > > > > emerge kino and try it. > > The Converter has an Analog IN input (RCA-type A/V jack) and output is > S-VHS Video Out / Coaxial S/PDIF out / Toslink out > So I'm not sure I'll be able to take advantage of it, I think I need RCA > to DV converter (with FireWire port)
do you mean s-video rather than s-vhs? s-video is still an analog signal. anyway its not gonna do what we want. analog to dv is an expensive device, but some digital video cameras have an analog rca input and you can convert old analog stuff to dv by passing it through the camera. I am not sure if you have to record it on to digital video tape first and then play it out over the firewore port, or whther you can simply pass it through. A simple PCI framegrabber will do what you want, but you specified USB or firewire, so are we dealing with a laptop? If you need a USB device i pointed out one that will work in my first post, but thats not to say other usb devices won't work. The other option is a webcam device on top of the microscope. > > -- > #Joseph > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
