On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 09:35:19PM +0100, Dik Takken wrote: > On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > > Can the PVR250, etc handle external devices such as a VCR? If so > > that would be a good approache, but if the goal is to convert old > > tapes to DVD then something like the Canopus unit would be a very > > good choice. > > I want to edit the video after capture, so an MPEG2 capture card is > not an option. The image quality is too low.
Editing is indeed an option: LVE (http://lvempeg.sourceforge.net/). Gop accurate, lossless editing of mpeg2 streams. Works beautifully with the output from a PVR250 card. Now, it's also gop accurate, not frame accurate, so is not able to edit quite as accurately as you can edit an MJPEG or DV stream. And as far as the image quality being too low, I'm not sure what you've seen, but my PVR250's put out simply beautiful pictures. If I let the card use up a reasonable amount of bit rate in encoding (~2G/hr) the results from broadcast/cable tv are simply spectacular. Better quality than I was ever able to achieve with a DC10+ and the mjpegtools set. Although this was also before the arrival of the newer denoisers like y4mdenoise. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
