Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 12:57:52 -0500 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Tommy Johnson <protius@bobdbob.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Video capture Message-ID: <3A312120.DB69E030@mitre.org> References: <200012082106.eB8L67c12048@teryx.bobdbob.com>
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Tommy Johnson wrote: > > >Is it possible to capture video on FreeBSD into MPEG with just a BT8x8 > >based capture card? Has anybody successfully captured video and or > >coverted the video to DivX ;-) (MPEG4v2)? > > I've done video capture to mpeg 1 with a BT8x8 card, at 352x240 resolution. > The entire scheme is capture to an uncompressed file, then compress video > and audio seperately, then merge the two streams in to one system stream. > > If there is interest I can make a tarball of my alleged software and > put it on the web. Its extremely non-pretty, but it works. That would be great, I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants to do this. BTW, how much space does an uncompressed video take? My back of the envelope calculations for a 30fps 30 minute long uncompressed video place it around 76,032,000 bytes, ouch. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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