This is for a friend who isn't on the list yet. He's been to a couple of meetings and is thinking of joining the club in September.
This guy tapes wedding videos as a hobby. He has family in the Ukraine (as do the people whose weddings he records). He wants to convert some of the video tapes to a computer format so he can edit them (throw in titles and fancy transitions etc.). Maybe later convert them to DVD. He would like some recommendations about hardware and software. In addition to video in, he is thinking about setting up his machine as a part time PVR. Again, hardware and software recommendations are what he wants.
He has another request. He wants to know what software he can use to convert audio from a cassette tape to MP3 format. His father accumulated quite a collection of Ukrainian music when he was alive. So now he wants to convert his fathers collection over so he can listen to it on his computer and portable system.
He already has some hardware. He's running a dual core 64 bit system with loads of RAM and hard drive space. He is dualbooting with Ubuntu (FF) and XP.
Later Mike