I heard that the Xena cards from AJA were supported under Linux ?? Is it a hoax ? not sure Cheers E
On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 23:57 +0100, Terje J. Hanssen wrote: > 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
