[Mjpeg-users] Best capture tools under Linux for V4L2?

2004-06-21 Thread Steven Ellis
Ok first up sorry for the cross post. I read all these lists and I feel this is a suitable subject for them all. Also sorry about the length, but I had quite a few things to cover off Been playing with numerous tools over the last few years, and whilst i'm reasonably happy with the quality i'm

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Best capture tools under Linux for V4L2?

2004-06-21 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Steven Ellis wrote: > Ok first up sorry for the cross post. I read all these lists and I feel I'm must posting the reply back to the mjpegtools list since 1) that's the one where I have the most expertise/knowlege and 2) other than ffmpeg is the only

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Best capture tools under Linux for V4L2?

2004-06-22 Thread Steven Ellis
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 17:45, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Steven Ellis wrote: > Get yourself a IEEE1394 card (very cheap) and a Canopus ADVC100 or > even better (but somewhat more expensive) ADVC300 analog to DV > converter. The ADVC300 has a TBC and denoisi

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Best capture tools under Linux for V4L2?

2004-06-22 Thread Maarten de Boer
> A nVidia FX5200 is __cheap__ and comes with a MPEG_2 decoder than > MPlayer and ffmpeg know how to tap into. Quite useful for playback > even when the system is under heavy load (since the decoding is > shoved out to the graphics card). Hey, that's really interesting, thanks. I have an nVidia F

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Best capture tools under Linux for V4L2?

2004-06-22 Thread Richard Ellis
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 07:31:58PM +1200, Steven Ellis wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 17:45, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Steven Ellis wrote: > > > Get yourself a IEEE1394 card (very cheap) and a Canopus ADVC100 > > or even better (but somewhat more expensive) ADVC300 analog t

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Best capture tools under Linux for V4L2?

2004-06-22 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Maarten de Boer wrote: > > A nVidia FX5200 is __cheap__ and comes with a MPEG_2 decoder than > > MPlayer and ffmpeg know how to tap into. Quite useful for playback > > Hey, that's really interesting, thanks. I have an nVidia FX5200, and I > had no idea. A bit of googling te

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Best capture tools under Linux for V4L2?

2004-06-22 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Steven Ellis wrote: > Well thanks for the interesting tip. Already considered this angle and > there are a couple of issues. Welcome! > 1. Can't really build a PVR around this, which is part of the long term > goal. You most certainly can. Might be an extr

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Best capture tools under Linux for V4L2?

2004-06-22 Thread Richard Ellis
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:57:43AM -0700, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Steven Ellis wrote: > > > 1. Can't really build a PVR around this, which is part of the > > long term goal. > > You most certainly can. Might be an extra (S-Video or composite) > cable or two involved bu

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Best capture tools under Linux for V4L2?

2004-06-22 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Richard Ellis wrote: > Quite true, assuming of course that one is duping vhs tapes off to > DVD. Which was one of the items mentioned - that's why I brought up the issue of being able to manipulate the data before encoding. > But, the posters implied usa

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Best capture tools under Linux for V4L2?

2004-06-22 Thread Trent Piepho
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > cards are "adequate". For archival purposes, well, quality isn't > free/cheap ;( The other gotcha is that the analog cards (at least > the Bt878 based ones) going thru the v4l layer yield square pixels You are about that? I hav

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Best capture tools under Linux for V4L2?

2004-06-22 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Trent Piepho wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > cards are "adequate". For archival purposes, well, quality isn't > > free/cheap ;( The other gotcha is that the analog cards (at least > > the Bt878 based ones) going thru the v4l layer yi

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Best capture tools under Linux for V4L2?

2004-06-23 Thread Steven Ellis
On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 16:12, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Trent Piepho wrote: > > DV has the extra 8 pixels on each side of a 704x480 frame but > Bt8x8 cards converting an analog signal shouldn't be giving out > 720x480 unless the right and left 8 pixels are

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Best capture tools under Linux for V4L2?

2004-07-05 Thread Al Bogner
Am Dienstag, 22. Juni 2004 07:45 schrieb Steven M. Schultz: > A nVidia FX5200 is __cheap__ and comes with a MPEG_2 decoder > than MPlayer and ffmpeg know how to tap into. Quite useful for > playback even when the system is under heavy load (since the > decoding is shoved out to the graphics

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Best capture tools under Linux for V4L2?

2004-08-03 Thread Lehmeier Michael
My command line is: mencoder -tv driver=v4l2:input=3:adevice=/dev/dsp:forceaudio tv:// -ovc lavc -oac pcm -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=3000:keyint=50 -endpos 700mb -vf pp=lb -o out01.avi Then I merge or cut the 700mb segments with avidemux. Convert the rest to dvd. Like this: #! /bin/sh mkfifo