On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Amichai Rotman wrote: > Hell Clan, > > I have a 3 hour long VHS I need to convert / encode to a digital media format > that can fit on a CD (so it can be distributed). > > Here is the catch: The format must be GPLed / Open Sourse. > > I have no experiance doing any video encoding. This is what I have: > > A Celleron 850 MHz > 256 MB RAM > A 30 Gb (free) HDD > A TV Capture Card > MDK 9.1 installed with Mencoder, MPlayer (ver 0.90-rc4), XawTV (ver. 3.85). > > I need suggetions for the right A/V CODECs, Video aspect etc.
Consider using either ffmpeg or mencoder for capture and encoding of the video. The problem with codecs is not open/closed source but patent issues. I think you can put 3 hours of MPEG1 video on a VCD (download vcdimager) and then you get the extra bonus of the CD being playable on most home DVD players. As you are low on disk space, you will have to do the encoding in parts, or in real-time (which is not recommended). Use mencoder to create an uncompressed avi file and then compress it with another pass of mencoder. Alon -- This message was sent by Alon Altman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ICQ:1366540 GPG public key at http://alon.wox.org/pubkey.txt Key fingerprint = A670 6C81 19D3 3773 3627 DE14 B44A 50A3 FE06 7F24 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -=[ Random Fortune ]=- Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God. -- Mark Twain ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
