30 Nov
2006
30 Nov
'06
8:14 p.m.
Jim Beacon wrote:
have a look at the MYTHTV LINUX package - the addition
of a suitable capture
card and video out card should do the job. We've got it to do various
esoteric television standards, for a bit of a taster of what it can do, have
a look here:
http://www.g1jbg.co.uk/fothtv.htm
wow - that looks like it'll do the job nicely. I suppose the hardware needed
is at the point where it's almost free these days (and certainly cheaper than
a proprietary converter).
I wonder what the quality's like? Going PAL -> recoder -> NTSC obviously
won't
be as good as native NTSC device output. Or, to put it another way, is the
average PCI TV tuner card as good quality as the tuner found in a good TV set?
Or do they tend to compromise on the design in order to keep costs down? (My
limited experience of TV tuner cards for PCs has been that the output looks
awful - but that may just be a result of the output being on a good CRT
monitor rather than a TV's CRT)
(Hmm, you've got me thinking that the museum probably needs the reverse of
what I'm trying to do - something that'll take all sorts of formats as input
and output VGA or PAL...)
cheers
Jules