[RndTbl] Video in

[Mike Pfaiffer]

	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