Recording TV onto PC : WAS [Nottingham] Students

[Lee]

I got my pinnacle dc10 video card working with mandrake linux, needed to
compile a few drivers, but the thing worked really well, I seem to get
much better quality capture using linux, but that may just be my
imagination, or am I biased towards pengiun techology?

it's based on the zoran chipset by the way....

I can only get mpeg1 quality, if you need mpeg2 you'r going to have to
ask someone else.....

Do yo have any other format apart from VHS, do you have the original
footage from thew video camera, just when you put it on VHS your doomed
for quality, but I have acceptable results.

Laters,
Lee

On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 10:16, Philip Scott wrote:
> > Did you do that by copying the DVDs or did you actually record the
> > series directly onto the hard drive? If the latter I would love to
> > know how you did it, what hardware you used, programs etc.
> 
> The ones I have are rips from the DVD's i'm afraid :) 
> 
> > I am trying to figure a way to get parts of a wedding video on VHS
> > into an mpeg type format (no blackmailing involved I assure you). I
> > have been quoted several heart attack inducing figures so far.
> 
> This is certainly possible, although I must say I have never tried it in Linux 
> I know there are TV-Input cards that Linux supports. The only place I can 
> think of pointing you is the Multimedia/Video for Linux section in the kernel 
> make menu thingy (if you use make menuconfig or make xconfig) which lists 
> some devices which may do what you want :) Unfortunatley if your device isn't 
> listed you may have to resort to putting the card in a windows machine and 
> using the windows drivers which (hopefully) came with it - this is how me and 
> my friends made 'Milk' 
> 
> (For those of you with nice quick connections, a snip at 45 meg - worth every 
> byte ;) 
> http://www.scene.org/file.php?file=/parties/2002/assembly02/wild/milk_by_sdk.avi&fileinfo
> 
> Kind Regards,
>  Philip
> 
> PS.
> If you are really stuck, if you give me the VHS, I could arrange for it to be 
> done for you. I've a friend who has a capture card we know works :)
> 
> 
> 
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