hi canek hmm.. well there is a player called xmovie, from the same site of broadcast2000 which plays the vcd's pretty well. and instead of trying broadcast2000, why dont you download an evaluation copy of mainactor and check it out. regds bharat ----- Original Message ----- From: Canek Peláez Valdés <canek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 12:03 PM Subject: [V4L] Broadcast 2000 & mp1e > Hi everybody. > > I got a TV card working fine with bttv, and after a post from Michael > Petullo (mike@xxxxxxxx), with a recipe for make VCD's, and installing > Mandrake 7.2 (which BTW I thing is very friendly for V4L things, IMHO), I > decided to give a try and switch to kernel 2.4 and v4l2/bttv2. > > The grabbing is OK (very cool actually), and the recipe from Michel works > OK too. I have to jump some steps, but I can record really long videos with > reasonably good quality (I can use 480x320 at 2.5 Mbits in VCDs and 640x480 > at 4 Mbits for regular MPEG-1 files), with almost no frames lost and with > my hard drive as limit (men, I need to get one of those 80 Gb HDs). > > I use mp1e for grabbing, as the recipe says. > > The VCD's are great, and they play OK in my Creative DVD, with audio/video > totally synchronized (only problem is I need to switch to Windows). mtv > (http://www.mpegtv.com) can play VCD's, but isn't open source and have that > annoying notice. > > All the others MPEG players have troubles with audio/video > synchronization. I assume it's because neither of those uses hardware MPEG > acceleration (and my DVD uses the Dxr3 card, which isn't supported. Dxr2 > IT'S supported, BTw). > > Anyway, I'm pretty excited about the VCD's (I've never heard of them until > Michael's mail), but I have a little trouble. > > I can't edit my videos. > > If I record 1 hour of video, I can burn the VCD and it's OK, but I can't > edit the video. > > The only program I found to make video editing as I want/need is Broadcast > 2000, but when I opened one video in it, the video and audio tracks are not > zynchronized. Even worst; it tells me the video track is longer than the > audio tracks (~1 minute/hour). And I don't believe it because when I burn a > VCD, the result is synchronized. > > I need to know if I'm making something wrong with mp1e, or if it's a > Broadcast 2000 error, or if there is another video editing tool for Linux > (open source is better, of course). > > Also, the VCD's are OK, but the quality I can get is sort of low. I want to > know if there is something I can do to "trick" my DVD player and make it > think a regular CD is a DVD, and burn the CD with DVD quality (if I only > can get 20 minutes for CD it's OK, I'm thinking in MTV :) > > Thanks. > > Canek > > > > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
