From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed May 17 2:57:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from gruft.de (gate.obh.snafu.de [195.21.6.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9E8237BBCE for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 02:57:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ob@gruft.de) Received: from localhost (1538 bytes) by gruft.de via sendmail with P:stdio/R:inet_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) (ident using unix) id for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 11:56:19 +0200 (CEST) (Smail-3.2.0.106 1999-Mar-31 #1 built 1999-May-21) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 11:56:19 +0200 From: Oliver Brandmueller To: Alexander Langer Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: video recording and encoding on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000517115619.A31629@gruft.de> References: <20000517112731.A15281@matrix.42.org> <20000517113259.A4359@cichlids.cichlids.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <20000517113259.A4359@cichlids.cichlids.com>; from Alexander Langer on Wed, May 17, 2000 at 11:32:59AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi. On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 11:32:59AM +0200, Alexander Langer wrote: > Hello Stefan! > Every TV-Card can record, you know? (fxtv). That even works :-) > raw-data -> mpeg is then done in software after the recording. > Don't know about hardware-recorders. How much diskspace would you require for an hour and a reasonable quality? I think 90 to 120 minutes of video take a very huge amount of temporary space and encoding even on a "fast" PC, say 600 MHz PIII, what seems a good machine for home use, would take more than "just a few hours" or overnight. bye, Oliver -- | Oliver Brandmueller | Offenbacher Str. 1 | Germany D-14197 Berlin | | Fon +49-172-3130856 | Fax +49-172-3145027 | http://www.obh.snafu.de/~ob/ | | Ich bin das Internet. Sowahr ich Gott helfe. | | Eine gewerbliche Nutzung aller enthaltenen Adressen ist nicht gestattet! | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message