Dear Tim, On Mar 02 2009, Tim Beauregard wrote: > Rogério Brito wrote: > > Therefore, I would like to know the experiences of people from the > > Debian community regarding both software and hardware for this very > > task. I would like to record what I have in analog form with the highest > > quality possible (and, latter, I can think of converting the final > > result to a DVD, iPod, MPEG-4 ASP file etc). > > I went through this about a year ago, first attempt was with an ATI > Radeon 9200 PCI card, I had problems with finding suitable cables and > then with macrovision on commercial films.
Well, in my case, I would be using an ATI Rage 128 Fury card, which predates the Radeon's, as far as I know. The macrovision thing wouldn't be a problem, as I'm mostly concerned with home-made recordings (like family encounters and such things) but it is nice to know about that limitation. As I posted in an earlier message, I'm not that familiar with the hardware side of things. > I then bought a Hauppauge WinTV PVR 150, it does hardware encoding > which means nil CPU usage. This proved faultless for all my > conversions. Nice to know. Encoding in which format, BTW? MPEG-2? > v4l2-ctl is used to set all the parameters used by the card; the > capture command is as easy as > > $ cat /dev/video0 > raw.mpg That's perfect! Just what the doctor prescribed. > I used ffmpeg to encode to DVD format, with the commands > > $ ffmpeg -i raw.mpg -ss 00:00:02.9 -t 00:49:49.1 -ildct -ilme -target > dvd -b 5172k -cropbottom 16 -pass 1 pass1.mpg > $ ffmpeg -i raw.mpg -ss 00:00:02.9 -t 00:49:49.1 -ildct -ilme -target > dvd -b 5172k -cropbottom 16 -pass 2 pass2.mpg Very nice. I will keep those 2 pass lines here for further reference. I may, perhaps, take the input directly from /dev/video0 (if I ever manage to get things right), depending on my processing power (even though I'm using a Pentium D 805 like I mentioned in the earlier message, I will probably use a Duron 1GHz for this task). > Bitrate was calculated to produce a file sized for a single layer DVD > (alter this depending on the length of your mpegs). No problems. > I used dvdauthor to produce basic DVDs, and > http://mightylegends.zapto.org/dvd/dvdauthor_howto.php > has an excellent walk-thru on more elaborate DVD menus. Thanks. Authoring the DVD menus was/is something that i used to do by hand, and not with many tools that are available today. They surely help. Thank you very much for all the comments, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : rbr...@{mackenzie,ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org