From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 21 14:18:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EF9616A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:18:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from scgis.com (www.scgis.com [68.16.197.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EDFF43D31 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:18:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bstokes@lists.troopeight.org) Received: from crash ([68.16.197.34]) by scgis.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with SMTP id i0LMIZGv021321 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:18:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bstokes@lists.troopeight.org) Message-ID: <003e01c3e06d$6738f930$0301010a@crash> From: "Bill Stokes" To: Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:24:58 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Recommended hardware and software to capture video stream X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:18:38 -0000 Hi, I have been asked to build a video capture system for a friend. = He'd like=20 a FreeBSD system with svideo input. I'm to grab a video stream = from=20 the svideo input and write an mpeg. My stream will vary from 30 = minutes to two hours in length. I believe the source will run at 30 = frames per=20 second. He would like to input a filename for output and the = number of minutes to capture data. Can anyone recommend a video card and the software required for data capture?=20 Thanks, Bill=20