Video in

	This is for a friend who isn't on the list yet. He's been
to a couple 
of meetings and is thinking of joining the club in
September.

	This guy tapes wedding videos as a hobby. He has family in
the Ukraine 
(as do the people whose weddings he records). He wants to
convert some 
of the video tapes to a computer format so he can edit them
(throw in 
titles and fancy transitions etc.). Maybe later convert them
to DVD. He 
would like some recommendations about hardware and software.
In addition 
to video in, he is thinking about setting up his machine as
a part time 
PVR. Again, hardware and software recommendations are what
he wants.

	He has another request. He wants to know what software he
can use to 
convert audio from a cassette tape to MP3 format. His father
accumulated 
quite a collection of Ukrainian music when he was alive. So
now he wants 
to convert his fathers collection over so he can listen to
it on his 
computer and portable system.

	He already has some hardware. He's running a dual core 64
bit system 
with loads of RAM and hard drive space. He is dualbooting
with Ubuntu 
(FF) and XP.

				Later
				Mike

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Kevin, have you ever been able to capture video via firewire
under
Linux?

I only gave it a quick try but was not able to do it. While
there is
fireware support for Linux, my understanding is each video
camera has
proprietary DV/Firewire drivers which of course don't exist
for Linux.

Is that correct?

John

On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 13:17 -0500, Kevin McGregor wrote:
> You should suggest to him that he should get a DV
(digital video) type
> of video camera for future recording. Then he could
bring in the
> content (via FireWire, usually) directly for editing.
For the other
> cases, the Hauppage cards (e.g. PVR-150) have a good
selection of
> inputs and software support.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mike Pfaiffer <high.res.mikegmail.com>
> Date: Thursday, August 23, 2007 23:03
> Subject: [RndTbl] Video in
> To: roundtablemuug.mb.ca
> 
> > This is for a friend who isn't on the list yet.
He's been to a 
> > couple 
> > of meetings and is thinking of joining the club in
September.
> > 
> > This guy tapes wedding videos as a hobby. He has
family in the 
> > Ukraine 
> > (as do the people whose weddings he records). He
wants to 
> > convert some 
> > of the video tapes to a computer format so he can
edit them 
> > (throw in 
> > titles and fancy transitions etc.). Maybe later
convert them to 
> > DVD. He 
> > would like some recommendations about hardware and
software. In 
> > addition 
> > to video in, he is thinking about setting up his
machine as a 
> > part time 
> > PVR. Again, hardware and software recommendations
are what he wants.
> > 
> > He has another request. He wants to know what
software he can 
> > use to 
> > convert audio from a cassette tape to MP3 format.
His father 
> > accumulated 
> > quite a collection of Ukrainian music when he was
alive. So now 
> > he wants 
> > to convert his fathers collection over so he can
listen to it on 
> > his 
> > computer and portable system.
> > 
> > He already has some hardware. He's running a dual
core 64 bit 
> > system 
> > with loads of RAM and hard drive space. He is
dualbooting with 
> > Ubuntu 
> > (FF) and XP.
> > 
> >                          Later
> >                          Mike
> > 
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