Aaron, On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 Aaron Newcomb wrote: > > Terje, > > Perhaps you are looking for a high end solution, but for those that > want to do this cheap I know of a couple of options worth looking > into. I use a Haupaugge WinTVUSB2 device (otherwise known at the > pvrusb2) to capture svideo signals. It outputs in mpeg. Mike Isely has > done a fantastic job with the linux driver for this. > > http://isely.net >
Well, maybe I wished to discuss the need for, advantage and availability of somewhat higher end prosumer solutions than based on plain (automatic) DV25 codec, but yet at an achievable cost (not prof). Maybe also a solution that might be prepared for the upcoming HD video, HD-DVD/BD and HDTV generation. Yes, I also have have looked a little at some media center boxes, hard disk video recorders and dvd recorders etc. The advantage they have over sole video converters looks to be greater flexibility in use (not only converting) at various price levels. Fun to see that one of the solutions for Linux I discovered was Plextor's ConvertX PX-TV402U personal video recorder, which just is considered as and alternative to Haupaugge's device: http://hardware.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/07/01/0353218&tid=125&tid=24 http://www.plextor.com/english/news/press/LinuxPVR_pr.htm http://colabti.de/convertx/ But there are other interesting types of video converters too, i.e. HDTV Supplies.com S-Video to DV//HDMI converters. http://www.hdtvsupply.com/svideotodvi.html http://www.hdtvsupply.com/composite-to-hdmi-converter.html While these are described in context for viewing on HDTV, I just wonder if the latter can be used to convert S-video to a digital editable video format to import and save on harddisk through the 1394 port? As previous mentioned, codecs using less compressed video or color sampling 4:2:2 might be a be better editing format than DV25 in some cases. A couple of references regarding this subject I've found of interest are these: http://www.humanvalues.net/hdv/#dv25 http://www.adamwilt.com/DV-FAQ-editing.html#transcoding Terje _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
