Recording TV onto PC : WAS [Nottingham] Students

Lee nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Sun Jan 12 19:38:00 2003


You're quite right...it's mjpeg, but if you convert that to mpeg2, your
still going to see a mpeg1 like quality picture......Better picture
quality and capture means more $$$$$ ... :-).

Cheers,
Lee


On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 19:15, Tom Bird wrote:
> On 11 Jan 2003, Lee wrote:
> 
> > 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.....
> 
> The pinnacle dc10 spits out MJPEG, not MPEG.  Quality wise, that can go
> right up to the top, but needs software intervention to make MPEG type
> files... but since the mpeg stage would be in software, i don't see why
> that should stop it being used to make mpeg 2 or above files.
> 
> I've got a dc10 myself, and have grabbed and played back through it, but
> haven't yet tried making mpeg files.
> 
> -- 
> Tom  [www.hambule.co.uk] [tom@hambule.co.uk]
> 
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