From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 27 16:32:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB87737B405 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 16:32:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAS0WJS78637; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:02:19 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011127183345.8269A44A9DB@spitfire.velocet.net> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:02:19 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: David Subject: RE: Video format's and sizes Cc: chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 27-Nov-2001 David wrote: > (I figured i would send this too chat, because it's not really specific > too FreeBSD in itself.) > > I'm looking at transfering VCR video's to cd or dvd if necessary, ( > preferably cd) but am uncertain as too what size's I would be dealing > with. ( dealing with video "sizes" between 1.5 and 2 hours) > > I'm wandering if someone has done this, and/or what would the best format > too convert the video too, and would it be possible to be fit a 2hr video > on a cd? Are you enamoured with a particular format? Eg MPEG1 is pretty crappy - it does have the advantage of playing most DVD players though (ie if you make a VCD). No idea about DVD mastering. Another possibility is to use some compression format like DivX (eg MPEG4). That would get you a good compression ratio, but at the disadvantage of only being playable on a PC. I don't know of any easy to use software for FreeBSD that can do this. I have, however, used a BT878 card (cheap), Virtual Dub (free), DScaler (free) and OpenDivx (free) under Windows (not free) to capture stuff off VCR with relative ease. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message