On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 08:59, Michael W Cocke wrote:
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:54:38 -0700, you wrote:
I picked up something interesting at a garage sale. It is a Dazzle Hollywood DV-Bridge.
It has analog IEEE 1394, and S-Video in and out, and connects to the computer using IEEE 1394. From the manual, it can convert analog to DV both ways. It also appears able to pass data between devices (I suppose this means between a camera and VCR, for instance) without a computer.
I'm not familiar with DV format, but I understand it is uncompressed and needs to be converted to a standard compressed (i.e., .AVI) format.
My use would be to convert old VCR tapes and store them on DVD or hard drive. Does anyone have a resource they can point me to?
Not directly useful, but will give you some of the background. http://www.catherders.com/Notebook-Mike/vidconv.html
Mike-
Thanks. Thanks to some Google searching I'm a little smarter than I was last night. The Dazzle unit is just a converter, non-OS specific. It has two of everything: Firewire, analog video and audio, and S-Video, in case you want to share your digital movies with your VCR owning friends, for example. I found a HOW-TO at http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/VCR-HOWTO.html. I also found a Linux Journal article on video editing: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6631 Since uncompressed DV format uses roughly 15 gig per hour (!) of content, I'm still looking for something which compresses to vts*.vob files so they can be played in a standard DVD player or with ogle. -- This is an unauthorized cybernetic announcement. -- One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening. -- Franklin P. Jones