"Steven M. Schultz" wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Ted Huntington wrote: > > >I would like to skip the step of analog to DV(mjpeg avi), DV to mpeg-2 encoding > > DV != mjpeg So how do you go from VHS to DV (.avi)? > > > 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 guess time intensive. > I presume you're thinking of either the Hauppauge 250 or the 350 > (the 350 has a MPEG-2 decoder while the 250 does not). Since I have > no recent experience with the Hauppauge products (not since the WinTV > era) I can't say how good the quality of encoding compares to that of > mpeg2enc. I do suspect that mpeg2enc will give higher quality > because it offers more places to adjust the encoding parameters (use > alternate quantization matrices, perform single coefficient elimination, > specify if B frames (and how many) should be used or not, set the > 4x4 and 2x2 searching parameters, alter the HF quantization, and so on). > Then there's being able to process the data thru the wide range of > filters available. still, videotape quality is not good anyway. Ted! -- Ted Huntington Programmer Analyst I Main Library University of California, Irvine PO Box 19557 Irvine, CA 92623-9557 Phone Bus Off 949 824 8926 Phone MRC 949 824 1674 emesg: [EMAIL PROTECTED] webpage: http://business.lib.uci.edu/webpages/ted.htm "Stop violence, teach science." ------------------------------------------------------- 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