On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 17:31, Steffen Barszus wrote: > Am Samstag, 13. September 2003 22:45 schrieb Anne Wilson: > > 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. > > > A DC10+ is good i think. Ermmh this is a mjpeg card isn't it ? Sorry for > the confusion, i think that is the card that is recommended ny the > mjpegtools guys as well. For firewire, some new boards have that > onboard. I have bought a firewire extension card for this back then i > got my dv camcorder. > > > I had planned for 512MB RAM - are you saying that's not really > > enough? > > I would say 512 is ok. , f.i. 256 would definitly be to few ram. (my > opinion) > > > > > 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? > > See above, sorry for the confusion. The DC10 should be perfect. For > exact model i would search trough the mjpeg mailinglist archiv. My > thought was just that you shouldn't really consider using a tv-card or > the like for capturing. ahhh,,, this has both sides... the difference in price of an old winTV card vs that DC10 can sure make for the purchase of that extra 256 meg ram work out easier, and if it was me, I would go for the ram, if I was only running 256. if you have a wide pipe, I captured a video since we have been talking about it. I have recorded with a sony handycam running hi8 tape, and captured using my wintv card in cinelerra. it might be more choppy than normal since I set the capture to 29 frames and was installing software at the same time. (http://ed-tharp.is-a-geek.org/kayla1.mpg)
> > > > > 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. > > I have a Samsung 5400 120 Gig with 2MB cache here an plan to buy a > second one in near future. 120 Gig = 50 hours dvb mpeg2, does not know > how much you have to calculate for mjpeg and how fast the hd has to be. > If you plan to make some video dvd i guess you can't get enough. scsi2 > i think isn't worth the money here. For a definitly answer i would ask > on mjpegtools mailinglist. > > Steffen > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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