[Gllug] DV to DIVX

[Ashley Evans]

On Friday 18 July 2003 3:14 pm, Eric Stephens wrote:
> Rich,
>
> 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.
>
> Would that be a practical way to archive and share the recordings?
>
> I am planning to use Knoppix (Debian 3.0) as the baseline OS with a
> firewire card.
>
> Thanks,
>     Eric
>
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My Athlon XP 2100+ (~1700Mhz) is capable of encoding Xvids @ 25fps from an 
MPEG-2 (DVB)  source, recompressing the audio to vbr mp3. Based on this I 
would say you'd be fine archiving DV to DIVX (xvid) You may want to have 
mencoder set at a high priority to ensure cron tabs and the like don't cause 
slowdown (updatedb is a prime suspect here :)

Ashley



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