[Gllug] Getting videos onto my computer

[Dylan]

On Monday 31 May 2004 20:03 pm, John Winters wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a small collection of personal video tapes which I've made
> over the years.  (Children's birthdays and the like.)  Since video
> tape is not a good long term medium it seems obvious to transfer them
> to computer.  What sort of hardware do I need to allow me to connect
> my video camera to the computer and copy them over?  Would a TV card
> do the trick?

Yes, I'd suggest the best one you can afford - hardware encoding would 
be a definite bonus. I haven't done it myself, but some friends do it 
on That Other System - the USB units seem flaky to me, and the software 
encoding is definitely not as good or (obviously) as fast.

Personally, I have a DVD recorder so I put them on DVD then it's a 
simple matter of copying. I decided the extra cost of the recorder was 
sorth it over the tv-card option.

Have a look at www.exploits.org/v4l

HTH
Dylan

>
> TIA,
> John

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