From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 27 17: 8: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from aquinas.techsquare.com (aquinas.techsquare.com [199.190.186.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E3D937B417 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:08:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jamie@localhost) by aquinas.techsquare.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fAS13rR03762; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 20:03:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jamie) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 20:03:53 -0500 From: Jamie Oulman To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video format's and sizes Message-ID: <20011127200353.A3707@techsquare.com> References: <20011127183345.8269A44A9DB@spitfire.velocet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from doconnor@gsoft.com.au on Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:02:19AM +1030 Organization: TechSquare Inc X-PGP-ID: 1AF3984E Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Your pretty much stuck with mpeg1 IIRC if your doing VCD. SVCD requires mpeg2 and has some gains over mpeg1. I dont remember how much of that is picture quality. My recommendation would be a G4 Tower with a superdrive, a copy of Final Cut Pro 2, and the DVD tools from apple. Would cost you about $5k but it would be alot easier than finding compatible FreeBSD software. As a mentioned before. http://www.vcdhelp.com has alot of information on authoring (S)VCD's and the formats needed. And I believe a few of the tools they mention have linux ports or at least provide src. best, jamie. On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:02:19AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 27-Nov-2001 David wrote: > > (I figured i would send this too chat, because it's not really specific > > too FreeBSD in itself.) > > > > I'm looking at transfering VCR video's to cd or dvd if necessary, ( > > preferably cd) but am uncertain as too what size's I would be dealing > > with. ( dealing with video "sizes" between 1.5 and 2 hours) > > > > I'm wandering if someone has done this, and/or what would the best format > > too convert the video too, and would it be possible to be fit a 2hr video > > on a cd? > > Are you enamoured with a particular format? > > Eg MPEG1 is pretty crappy - it does have the advantage of playing most DVD > players though (ie if you make a VCD). > > No idea about DVD mastering. > > Another possibility is to use some compression format like DivX (eg MPEG4). > That would get you a good compression ratio, but at the disadvantage of only > being playable on a PC. > > I don't know of any easy to use software for FreeBSD that can do this. I have, > however, used a BT878 card (cheap), Virtual Dub (free), DScaler (free) and > OpenDivx (free) under Windows (not free) to capture stuff off VCR with relative > ease. > > --- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message