On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:56:47AM -0800, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > > with a Hauppauge card (now I have DC10+). That is too labor > > intensive. > > No labor at all - the computer's doing all the hard work :-) > > I presume you're thinking of either the Hauppauge 250 or the 350 > ... > I do suspect that mpeg2enc will give higher quality because it > offers more places to adjust the encoding parameters > ...
It all depends on your intended use (and the availability of drivers for the H250 or H350). The H250's and H350's have one real big advantage over a plain DC10+ or your ADVC box, in that they contain an onboard cable compatible tuner, so you don't need an additional source of composite/s-video input to the capture device. Your ADVC box has the advantage over a DC10+ of including audio sampling as part of the process, while the DC10+ relies on an existing sound card in the PC. If one's primary use is for VCR like time shifting, the H250's/350's (depending on driver availability) offer ease of use, quickness, and disk space savings (compare a 1.5G mpeg2 file of a 1 hour tv show to 12-15G's of avi/dv data) that those of us using DC10+'s and ADVC's can't ever hope to match. However, if one's primary use is for creating archival DVD's of the highest quality we can get from the tools at the time, then the H250's/350's can not match a DC10+ or ADVC + mjpegtools for that purpose. Plus, last time I checked (granted, this has been a while now) there were no linux drivers (or what did exist was extremely extremely basic) for the Hauppage cards. The zoran drivers for the DC10+'s was way more mature than anything for linux and the Hauppage cards. If anyone knows the state of the Hauppage cards now, please feel free to chime in. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
