Hi Jean-Michel, On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Jean-Michel POURE wrote: > I am a real GNU/Linux fan, but I lost a lot of time transcoding DV into > mpeg-2. Now, it is time to invest into a hardware compression card!
Be *very* aware that hardware MPEG-2 cards, especially the consumer-level ones, do not come remotely near the quality of software encoders like mpeg2enc or ffmpeg's mpeg-2 encoder. The rest was answered by Stephen but I'll add some small notes: > 2) Pinnacle/Miro DC10+ (no firewire card) > From http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/driver-zoran/cards.php, I understand that > the Pinnacle/Miro DC10+ is well supported and that the DC30+ is not fully > supported (interupt problem). Should I consider using a DC10+ or a DC30+? The DC30+ is fully supported in the current 2.6.x kernels using the 'zr36067.ko' driver. The code in CVS is the same as in the kernel, I just never release a 0.9.5 so far. I promised to release it at some point in time, but lack any form of free time right now. The webpage needs updating, I need to do that while I release 0.9.5. ... Aah! ;). > On the web page, does "internal" mean that I can use the mpeg tools > "internaly" (I will not be using the capture connectors) to transcode DV > streams into mpeg-2? Internal is an internal cable (like the cable between your soundcard and CD player). It is intended to connect a tuner card such as cheap TV cards to the capture card so that you have a tuner-capable hardware MJPEG capture card. It is not intended to send streams from applications and re-encode on-the-fly (and as Stephen noted, the card doesn't encode to MPEG-2 or decode DV; it's an MJPEG card only). > 3) Pinnacle Studio DV 9 (firewire) > In fact, I would rather choose a card including BOTH a firewire port and an > mpeg-2 codec. Apparently, the Studio DV9 IEEE 1394 port is supported natively > by the Kernel. Is the Studio DV 9 card mpeg-2 codec supported? No, I've asked for datasheets but got no reply. Development of this card is completely closed. Pinnacle has never been helpful in driver development in our project, as opposed to Linux Media Labs (we received official help and support from them) or Iomega (no official support, but we had contacts with their engineers). Ronald ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
