Luc Tanguay wrote: > Hello all, > > I got myself a Hauppage PVR-150 (NTSC) and was able to make it somewhat > work on my RedHat 9 system (ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j with kernel 2.4.26 + planet > CCRMA stuff -- my main activity is music recording/mixing). > > My main objective with this card is not to watch TV but to create DVD by > using the MPEG encoder on the card. (Silly isn't it?) I don't want to > loose many hours encoding and to finally find out that the last minute > of the DVD is scrambled... So I tought that buying such a card could be > helpful. > > What would be the easiest path? > > What I did up to now: > > 1- I have a miniDV camera. I can use Kino to import the footage. I can > also use Kino to export back to the tape after I've done my editing in > Kino. This work stays in digital domain. I can also use the camera to > digitalize old VCR tape by: (1) VCR to camera analog IN = miniDV tape, > then (2) connect miniDV to PC using FireWire and capture = DV_file.
You can hook up a vcr to the pvr-150. > > 2- To create a DVD, I need to encode the DV to MPEG for DVD. I was able > to do it by pluging the analog OUT of the miniDV camera to the composite > and line-in inputs of the PVR-150. The sound was not perfect but that's > another story. > > Can I go directly from the DV file to the PVR-150 card encoder then back > to a file -- the final MPEG almost ready for DVD burning ? Nope. The encoder will only take input from the tuner/svid/composite. > > If I understand well, the chips on the card communicate with I2C. The > video encoder output goes to the MPEG encoder chips. And the output of > the MPEG encoder chip is going to my PC memory (via PCI bus!). Is it > possible to hook up my digital stream (miniDV) to the input of the MPEG > encoder chip? Sorry, no. --Brian Jackson > > Thanks, > Luc > -- Stuff for sale -- http://www.brianandsara.net/temp/forsale.html Gentoo Linux -- http://www.gentoo.org IVTV -- http://ivtv.writeme.ch ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
