James A. Pattie wrote:
|> The WinTV PVR-250 hardware encoder is also worth considering. | | | Any specific reasons you would consider this card? Because it captures mpeg2 for you and does all the time intensive compression in real time. ;)
I'm not sure I want to capure in a lossy compressed format. Some of the VHS tapes I want to convert aren't the best quality of recordings. Some are copies of a copy that was shot with a home VHS camcorder. Not the most friendly of sources for MPEG input.
I'm thinkingiI'd like to be able post-process the files with something like VirtualDub before I compress them.
I believe that my system is capable of handleing the IO requirements that raw YUV capture will involve. Assuming that I use the HuffYUV codec.
Goto http://ivtv.sf.net/ for the PVR-250/350 driver and info under Linux.
Thanks for the link.. there was some good info there. How up are you on the latest versions of the driver? The info on the web page suggested that YUV output is not quite there yet. Something about having to fix the YUV form the card into a more standard arangement.
-- Richard A. Smith rsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxx
