On Saturday 13 Sep 2003 8:35 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: > Am Samstag, 13. September 2003 21:00 schrieb ed tharp: > > My opinion... > > Forget all the video cards and sound stuff,,, the 128 meg mem > > Video card is over kill, and the AC97 6 channel sound should be > > fine too. > > Agree > OK - sound isn't a problem then. So, video card and capture? There are two issues here - vhs and the current camcorder's analogue signal, for which I have been advised to use a Pinnacle DC10+ and V4l, and firewire, which I will need next spring when we buy a new camcorder. I have firewire on this box on the Audigy card, but only a 900 MHz processor (though 512MB RAM). I had thought of adding a firewire card to the new box when I buy the new camcorder.
I had planned for 512MB RAM - are you saying that's not really enough? > > The real bottle neck is going to be hard drive write speed. > > during capture that is. my suggestion might be to go with 2 > > different boxes, since capture is one thing and rendering a full > > different set of problems and bottlenecks. capture is just as > > fast and accurate as long as the drive keeps up, > > Do not agree here really. Today you can capture with a midrange > recent machine divx in realtime. > > > and the quality of the capture card and > > signal input is more important than video card. > > Agree absolutly. Depending on the plans how much will be captured > with that box, i would even consider to buy a dv-capture card. (not > a firewire card, but a card that does the dv-encoding in hardware) > Recommemdations, then? > > get all the memory you can stuff on the Mobo (up to around 750, > > really no advantage above that unless you can go greater than 2 > > gigs memory) most folks used to swear you had to have fast wide > > scsi2 hard drives at least, but I am sure IDE udma4 or faster, > > and as large a hard drive cache as available will help. > > scsi2 is overkill i would say, the latter you are right again, as > much disk-space as possible. > I thought of scsi2, but it's very expensive, so it would have to be worth a lot more. I planned a 7200 120GB disk. It would have very little on apart from the needs of the job. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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