On Aug 18 03:58:03, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:43:45PM +0100, Peter wrote:
> > Jan Stary wrote:
> > >On Aug 17 16:06:05, Peter Kay - Syllopsium wrote:
> > >
> > >I wouldn't even consider converting something that is readily available
> > >in digital form. The analog VHS material is not available elsewhere,
> > >and is slowly deteriorating on these tapes.
> > >
> > >>Otherwise :
> > >>
> > >>1) Find decent hardware (not TV cards) that can capture compressed video
> > >>in real time (2nd hand ebay may help).
> > >>
> > >
> > >You mean UNcompressed, right?
> > No, I mean compressed. The tape is analogue, it's then captured to a
> > compressed digital format with the
> > capture card offloading the task from the CPU. It's entirely possible to
> > work directly with compressed
> > video and it'll be much lighter on CPU and I/O than capturing in raw
> > format. Ideally you want
> > hardware that can capture in your chosen format, so that lengthy
> > transcoding time is not required
> > and (if you're fussy - doesn't really apply in the case of VHS) there's
> > no quality loss in the final product.
>
> fwiw, I was capturing/encoding to mpeg4 with ffmpeg and a bktr. in
> realtime, 3 years ago, on a not so fast machine, with OpenBSD. couldn't
> quite do full DVD quality in realtime though. wouldn't surprise me at
> all if it can be done with a decent machine today.
This is an Atom 1.6 GHz with 1GB RAM; and I'm looking at the (cheapo)
Leadtek WinFast VC100 XP (as an altermative to the VCD -> DV camera
route mentioned earlier); bktr(4) does not specifically mention this
card, but it has the Conexant Fusion 878A chip; did anyone use it
successfully?
Thanks
Jan
