[Gllug] DV to DIVX

[Rich Walker]

"Eric Stephens" <eric.stephens at blinknow.com> writes:

> 									  Rich,
> 
Hi, I'm a Rich, so I'll field this one

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> One of you postings led me to believe you might know the fastest way to go straight from a firewire connected camera playing back Digital8 video to DIVX
> 								     using mencoder.
> 

I used Kino to grab the data to disk, and then mencoder -oac copy
-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq $1 maybe. (I remember posting the
final string I used...). 

Kino doesn't support encode-while-reading.

However, I think it shouldn't be *too* hard to hack kino to feed
directly into mencored...

cheers, Rich.


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> 					   Would that be a practical way to archive and share the recordings?
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> 				   I am planning to use Knoppix (Debian 3.0) as the baseline OS with a firewire card.
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> 									 Thanks,
> 
> 									    Eric
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