Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 10:47:53 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: VHS to file codec recommendation Message-ID: <20100529104753.ba23e2c2.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Dear list, I've built a system to digitize content from VHS video tapes. The setting consists of a 2 GHz P4 with a BrookTree based video grabber card (supported by bktr driver) and a C-Media sound card (supported by cmi driver). The video card does only have mono sound input, so I'm using the sound card's line in for stereo audio. A proper cable from a SCART to a Cinch connector and a 3,5mm TRS connector has been created. I can already play on screen and through speakers with this command: mplayer tv://0 on:driver=bsdbt848:device=/dev/bktr0:norm=PAL:noaudio:input=2 I am intending to use mencoder for the whole process. Which codec would you recommend for encoding? I'm searching for a solution that doesn't introduce too much loss of quality (as the tape's quality usually is considered "bad enough"), and the resulting files should not be too big. If possible (but not needed), they should be playable by hardware DVD players (given the situation when a digitized video is put into a ISO-9660 image on a DVD). Can you give an example for the proper encoding parameters (frame rate, audio rate, resolution and so on)? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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