On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, jeff covey wrote:
> anyway, there are a couple of people here who want a machine to use to
> convert the videotapes of their grandchildren to cd. they want to
> capture the tapes to disk, then do simple edits on them (adding some
> text, recording a voice track to say things like "this is joey playing
> on the swingset", adjusting contrast in some places and reducing the
> wind noise in others) and burn the resulting avi's to cd.
if/when you find out how to do this, can you please post the info or links
to the list?
i hope to do this some time when the hardware/software is available. i
looked into this over the summer (i have ~25 old videotapes that i want to
convert; tapes degrade over time so i hope this is something that becomes
availbable soon!); all i found was this:
<http://roadrunner.swansea.linux.org.uk/v4l.shtml>
i really couldn't make anything from this page as far as what hardware to
buy or what, if anything, would work. i also checked into setting up a
webcam with a linux-based machine, and came up just about empty-handed.
image quality was not top priority; i just wanted to buy a cheap ccd-like
camera and connect it to the parallel port of a machine, run some driver and
capture images. i didn't want to use a video capture card because of price
and because the machine i would be using was a laptop. well i found out that
the old, original color quickcam works fine with a quickcam driver on russ
nelson's crynwr.com site. but conectix don't make them anymore and they
don't sell them either. maybe 2 months earlier, computability were selling
off their cache of them, refurb units, for like $60 each. i called and they
were out of them. just my luck! they come up on ebay.com quite a bit but
people pay top dollar for them ($100+).
so -- anyone got a source for an original color quickcam or any other
parallel-port color camera that works with gnu/linux?
> 3. here's the most interesting bit:
>
> http://linuxmedialabs.com/
>
> they're making a capture board specifically for linux, with gpl'ed
> drivers and open specifications. they say it can be used for "high
> end home and semi-professional video editing", but don't give any
> idea what software is used for doing this.
on the "what's new" page they say that they already sold out of their first
lot of them. they'll be at linux expo.
