I didnt' get the DC 10+ working under linux. tried many combinations. only gost some smoke out of it (literally). There are some drivers available but old enugh. And it has only S-video in/out and Composite in/out. Does not have fireware and also does not have anny support from pinnacle. not even under windows :(
On Sunday 14 September 2003 00:31, 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. > > > > > 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. Sata is new but cheaper than scsi. But SPACE is the main problem. 120-300 gb is what you need. > > 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 -- Birkoff
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