On Wednesday 07 May 2003 11:35, Rich Gregor wrote:

jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:

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Yeah, I know it's a wide stretch there, but there are two different projects going on, one would be a "kiddie" semi solution and the other would be a more "grown up solution.. <g> I need to be able to setup video transfer form analog ( old tape) .. editing is easy enough, The kiddie solution will be analog ( hi 8 tapes) until the price for digital stuff drops into kiddie range.. I mean, it's a bit pricey still , to find, perhaps in the fish bowl or terrarium , or the dogs dinner dish, or his bed , for that matter.. Cinelera looks pretty spiffy for serious work ... confusing to start , perhaps but ultimate usefulness should be worth the time... I hope it doesn't die before it's fully useful..

I didn't reply to the original post because I couldn't understand it. Video transfer and fish bowls? WTF is he on about? Might I suggest to the OP that if he has a simple question, he asks it?

I'm trying to do the same thing - transfer VHS tape to digital, then burn DVDs, VCDs, SVCDs, what have you. Using a Pinnacle DC10+, and a (admittedly old) ProAudio Spectrum sound card. On a 500 MHz PIII I can do 320 x 240 wonderfully. Scaling up to, say, 640 x 480 results in dropped frames, losing sound sync, what have you.

I have a dual PIII 500Mhz box. The second CPU doesn't make much difference here. The lavrec code (which is what I assume you're using) uses a separate thread to capture sound, so I have a slight advantage, but it's not that much. I've heard of people using much slower hardware than you have to do capturing. If you can capture at low resolution but not high, I would guess that your problem is almost certainly disk speed. I can capture to my IDE drive and my newer SCSI drive, but my older SCSI drives can't cope with the sustained throughput demands. Dropped frames and losing sound sync are the exact symptoms of too slow a disk.

- The SuSE module(s) never worked for me, but following this link

Nope, it's broken up to and including SuSE-8.1. I compiled everything from source, and put the DC10+ driver in a standard 2.4.20 kernel, and that works fine.

- Use lavtools. Works great. I've had success viewing with xawtv, also, but KWinTV bombs.

Same here, although exiting xawtv when in SVHS mode causes the xawtv process to hang and the machine to become unstable. I've never seen KWinTV do anything useful.

So, post back if you want/need more info. This is something I'm d*mned determined to do SANS Winblows.

From what I've read on the 'net, the DC10+ works better under Linux than Windows. User friendly editing software is still the weak link.

-- "...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE ...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003

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WTF is he on about?

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Might I suggest to the OP that if he has a simple question, he asks it?

She did, in $SUBJECT

My answer to that question is "yes". I've spent many hours working on video capture under Linux, and I'm willing to share all my knowledge. Since the body of the message didn't ask a more specific question in a sensible manner, I didn't bother. -- "...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE ...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003

On Wednesday 07 May 2003 13:26, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:

* Derek Fountain; on 07 May, 2003 wrote:

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I've spent many hours working on video capture under Linux, and I'm willing to share all my knowledge. Since the body of the message didn't ask a more specific question in a sensible manner, I didn't bother.

How about writing a document and sending it over me so I can add it to the susefaq project

It's not really a SuSE specific thing, or a FAQ. Everything anyone needs to know is here: http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net The document you're talking about already exists as the MJPEG-HOWTO: https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=3456&group_id=5776 which is written by Bernhard Praschinger, who knows an *awful* lot more about this sort of stuff than I do. -- "...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE ...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003