On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:09:03 +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A question for video enthusiasts out here (LL?).
yes? > I recently got a Samsung > camcorder which works with Hi8 tapes. Unfortunately, the native format of > the cam is NTSC, and while there is a PAL60 output, it doesnt work very > well with our TV. > get a ntsc to pal convertor a small, electronics thingie you can buy from any respectable video electronics vendor. don't try that software solution. [waste of computer use. playing solitaire is relatively more useful....] > Is there a NTSC to PAL converter software in Linux? And cards which can > accept perhap S-video input and perhaps record to MPGs? There is the > Pinnacle dazze card in the market which is supposedly for video editing. > But does this work with Linux? hehehehee... man! great questions. you want a certain quality, which is within your mindset. that quality won't come with these low-end cards. a high-end digitizing card is gnna cost you money with capitals of m, o, n, e, y! then you'll find that digitizing at that quality costs ram, processing, dsp, even special on-the-fly decoders. more money. and finally, you'll need storage. the alternative solution, which turns out to be cheaper, you are not prepared to accept either. FORGET digitizing. JUST TRANSFER. hehehehee that means: for far less money, you could buy a miniDV camcoder, and attach a firewire card, and just transfer the digital video data from the tape to the hardisk. no digitizing required. works even on a cheap celeron. then do your video-edit stuff, and burn on DVD-burner. do NOT use VCD, that sucks big time. to understand the whole bewildering stuff around quality, storage, compression, workflows, check out dvddemystified.com > > - Sandip HTH, though am sure you are gonna ignore all this, and still attempt a costly and unfruitful digitizing process. that's okay too. atleast you'll learn the same lessons, the harder way. hehehee :-) LL _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
