Would you care to share with the list your setup for the zoran based DC10+ and your command-line for running lavrec, if that is what you used to capture the video. I was hoping to find out if you have everything loaded in the modules.conf, and what lines you have in there. ANY info would be appreciated.... Thanks, jwt ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Roger <roger.maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx Date: 13 Dec 2001 22:55:34 -0500 >On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 22:28, Donna. wrote: >> >> Just in case everybody ever hoping to digitize from videotape has been scared >> off, it IS possible. Off newer VCRs, fairly new recordings (within the last >> two years), I get almost as good quality as I do capturing from composite >> off the antenna. >> > >yup. my vcr is about 5-7 years old....although, still in good shape. > >> A couple weeks ago, I captured two tapes, circa 1995-97, recorded on one of the >> scuzziest VCRs it's ever been my displeasure to own. One of the movies had a >> tracking problem on playback, didn't feel like opening the playback machine >> to tweak hardware for just one movie, so left in the line down at the bottom of >> the picture. Both of them were mono, of course, since the original VCR was, >> and the video was a little washed out, but otherwise they came through just >> fine. No lost frames, no more sound leakage than I get on a good recording. >> >> A couple months ago I did some tapes from about 1990-92, with the same capture >> results, only the video was better cuz they'd been done in a better VCR. >> >> I'm doing this with a Pinnacle DC10+ (hardware compression) > >ah...probabely a better capture card then mine. > >> with lavrec from >> the mjpegtools v1.4.1. The relevant settings to lavrec are -d2 (decimation > >just downloaded these tools ...after some minor dep problems (xforms, >jpeg-mmx, libmovtar)..got em installed. be my first time with them. > >> 2, which produces frames 240x288, which give me better quality fullscreen playback >> than capturing at larger framesize) and -q100 (quality 100%). >> >> Just in case that's useful to anybody ...... >> >> >> Donna. >> pudge@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Video4linux-list mailing list >Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list >
