On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 1:23 am, ed tharp wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 17:31, Steffen Barszus wrote: > > > 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. > > Thank the gods for replies. I never received this one. I said DC10+ because on Money I was talking to a guy at wylug who is using this card with v4l for hi8 and vhs work, and is happy with it.
> > > 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) > > > > > > 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) > It sounds as though both a viable routes. However, I'm not sure that the tv card would ever be used as a tv card, so is there any other great advantage? Cost, you say - ok, I can go with that, but any other? I seem to recall that pal operates at 30fps, so I presume that it would be an advantage to capture at the same frame rate? > > > > 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. > > I'm assuming that you need hdd space for one dvd's worth of finished product, + a similar amount of working space, with a thorough clean out at the end of each product. Does that sound sensible? One drive my supplier offers is a 120 GB Hitachi Deskstar 1800XP with 8MB cache. That sounds a reasonable one to me. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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