> > > Just as a matter of interest, what are the principal uses, if any, of > > > the MJPEG Tools to someone who doesn't have a supported capture card? > > At first I thought that was a troll ;)
:) No, definitely not a troll! I was considering writing a piece for Newsforge (or similar) on the MJPEGTools project. I've had a few articles published there and have the ear of the editor, so to speak. The thing is, I only have a DC10+ card, which are increasingly difficult to get hold of these days. I have been blissfully unaware to date of what people might do with the toolset without such a card, hence the question. Since I've started asking stupid questions, I might as well continue, in the spirit of research. :) > Same here. And even when using a WinTV card with 'fxtv' > (http://people.freebsd.org/~rhh/fxtv/) on a BSD system I was using > mjpegtools to perform the processing of the data. After seeing the > difference between what a Bt878 and a Canopus ADVC100 (although today > I'd get the ADVC300) produce I pulled the WinTV card out and put it > in a static bag ;) /me goes off to google to read about these things. What software do you use to capture from these cards, and what format do they capture in? Assuming they don't capture to MJPEG, you presumably have to convert to MJPEG (in a non-lossy way) in order to use the tools...? > Exactly. The code for capturing in mjpegtools is a relatively small > portion of the total - the bulk of the code resides in the (wide) > variety of filters (couple denoisers, medianfilter, stabilizer, and > so on), scaling, and especially the encoding and multiplexing (mplex > is often regarded as the "standard" against which others are compared). Yep, OK, but I assumed these tools only worked on MJPEG files, and you only got MJPEG files from a DC10+ card or similar. Shows what I know... :o} ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
