The best thing to do would be to use Kino to export directly to MPEG2. The downside is it may be slower depending on your system. The up side is that if the options are chosen correctly you will get better size to quality ratio than with a hardware encoder.
Jonathan 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. > > 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 ? > > 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? > > Thanks, > Luc ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
