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
You should suggest to him that he should get a DV (digital video) type of video camera for future recording. Then he could bring in the content (via FireWire, usually) directly for editing. For the other cases, the Hauppage cards (e.g. PVR-150) have a good selection of inputs and software support.
----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Pfaiffer high.res.mike@gmail.com Date: Thursday, August 23, 2007 23:03 Subject: [RndTbl] Video in To: roundtable@muug.mb.ca
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
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Kevin, have you ever been able to capture video via firewire under Linux?
I only gave it a quick try but was not able to do it. While there is fireware support for Linux, my understanding is each video camera has proprietary DV/Firewire drivers which of course don't exist for Linux.
Is that correct?
John
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 13:17 -0500, Kevin McGregor wrote:
You should suggest to him that he should get a DV (digital video) type of video camera for future recording. Then he could bring in the content (via FireWire, usually) directly for editing. For the other cases, the Hauppage cards (e.g. PVR-150) have a good selection of inputs and software support.
----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Pfaiffer high.res.mike@gmail.com Date: Thursday, August 23, 2007 23:03 Subject: [RndTbl] Video in To: roundtable@muug.mb.ca
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
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I just got it going the other day with my HP Laptop, a Sony HandyCam, and Fedora 7. I had to use a different kernel because Fedora 7 changed the ieee1394 stack. Once I had that going, Kino worked fine through /dev/raw1394 or whatever the default was.
http://www.ezplanetone.com/xwiki/bin/view/KnowledgeBase/BrokenFC7FireWire
I couldn't get the computer to control the camera (rewind, play), but I was able to capture video and edit it.
Sean
On 8/24/07, John Lange john.lange@open-it.ca wrote:
Kevin, have you ever been able to capture video via firewire under Linux?
I only gave it a quick try but was not able to do it. While there is fireware support for Linux, my understanding is each video camera has proprietary DV/Firewire drivers which of course don't exist for Linux.
Is that correct?
John
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 13:17 -0500, Kevin McGregor wrote:
You should suggest to him that he should get a DV (digital video) type of video camera for future recording. Then he could bring in the content (via FireWire, usually) directly for editing. For the other cases, the Hauppage cards (e.g. PVR-150) have a good selection of inputs and software support.
----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Pfaiffer high.res.mike@gmail.com Date: Thursday, August 23, 2007 23:03 Subject: [RndTbl] Video in To: roundtable@muug.mb.ca
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
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Linux, no -- Unix, yes! Er, well, MacOSX, actually, so I guess that doesn't count. ;-)
----- Original Message ----- From: John Lange john.lange@open-it.ca Date: Friday, August 24, 2007 14:31 Subject: Re: [RndTbl] Video in To: roundtable@muug.mb.ca
Kevin, have you ever been able to capture video via firewire under Linux?
I only gave it a quick try but was not able to do it. While there is fireware support for Linux, my understanding is each video camera has proprietary DV/Firewire drivers which of course don't exist for Linux.
Is that correct?
John
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 13:17 -0500, Kevin McGregor wrote:
You should suggest to him that he should get a DV (digital
video) type
of video camera for future recording. Then he could bring in the content (via FireWire, usually) directly for editing. For the other cases, the Hauppage cards (e.g. PVR-150) have a good selection of inputs and software support.
----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Pfaiffer high.res.mike@gmail.com Date: Thursday, August 23, 2007 23:03 Subject: [RndTbl] Video in To: roundtable@muug.mb.ca
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
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