From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 29 08:48:02 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC6581065674 for ; Sat, 29 May 2010 08:48:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DB488FC1D for ; Sat, 29 May 2010 08:48:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-195-249-33.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.249.33]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC7D73DA69 for ; Sat, 29 May 2010 10:47:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id o4T8lrlH001853 for ; Sat, 29 May 2010 10:47:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 10:47:53 +0200 From: Polytropon To: FreeBSD Questions Message-Id: <20100529104753.ba23e2c2.freebsd@edvax.de> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: VHS to file codec recommendation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 08:48:02 -0000 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, ...