29 Jan
2002
29 Jan
'02
9:32 a.m.
Rumor has it that Lawrence LeMay may have mentioned these words:
1) The file size is HUGE. My card saves the video as
AVI, which is good,
but I use Windows 98se, which has a 2Gig file size limit. And yes, that
2Gig limit per file is a big problem. Once the file is compressed, its
nowhere
near that big, but still it can be difficult to record
a 2 hour movie
since i hit the limit right about then. And when I hit the limit, poof,
the file is worthless (gotta love windows, eh?).
Eeewww... :-(
2) The video capture resolution is very low (320x240).
So its only capturing
every other scan line, and its capturing only half the horizontal resolution
in order to compensate. In other words, only about 1/4th of the video
image data is being captured.
Eeewww... :-(
[snippage]
All in all, it is kinda fun to capture an hour of
Enterprise, edit out
the commercials and compress the remaining 45 minutes of video, then burn
about 3 shows onto a CDrom... The data compressing part is where you wish you
had a raid, and a very fast AMD processor.
Now, if you're looking to archive TV shows to VCD/SVCD, the best way (for a
hardware hacking standpoint, anyway) is to get youself a standalone TiVo
unit (not Sony - go for Philips), preferably an older one with a small hard
drive so you can upgrade it yourself, get a TivoNet setup so you can
install your own network card, and let the Tivo do the recording & just
download it onto your nice fast dual Athlon machine [remember that dual
athlon machine I caught hell for recently? This is what I use it for...],
transcode the video to fit on an SVCD, and enjoy 2200kbps 480x480
resolution shows trimmed of commercials on your SVCD-capable DVD player.
Wanna know how I do it? Go here:
http://www.30below.com/~zmerch/tivo/index.cfm
it's long -- it's ugly -- but I've had a lot of folks use it to get TV
shows onto SVCD.
'Nuff said,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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