Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-11-22 Thread Jan Stary
On Nov 22 03:30:00, Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 02:55:33PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > > > What could be the reason the captured video is black-and-white > > (the tape is deffinitely in color)? > > the device might only support b/w. also check the signal from the > VHS if you hav

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-11-22 Thread Chris Bennett
Jan Stary wrote: Some time ago, when I looked into something similar, all the supported cards that I found could only record incomming video at 1/2 res max. Whether this is a limitation of the bt848 chipset, I didnt bother to verify. what do you mean by 1/2 res? the bt8x8 (also c

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-11-21 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 02:55:33PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > What could be the reason the captured video is black-and-white > (the tape is deffinitely in color)? the device might only support b/w. also check the signal from the VHS if you haven't already. or the card could be in an odd color st

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-11-21 Thread Paul M
On 22/11/2009, at 2:55 AM, Jan Stary wrote: Some time ago, when I looked into something similar, all the supported cards that I found could only record incomming video at 1/2 res max. Whether this is a limitation of the bt848 chipset, I didnt bother to verify. ... Seems I am experiencing so

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-11-21 Thread Jan Stary
> Some time ago, when I looked into something similar, all the > supported > cards that I found could only record incomming video at 1/2 res max. > Whether this is a limitation of the bt848 chipset, I didnt bother to > verify. what do you mean by 1/2 res? t

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-10-18 Thread Jussi Peltola
The card's inputs probably work only one at a time. You would also need some interesting post-processing to merge 3 streams of RGB captured separately, and lack of sync would probably make it not work very well. VHS has so little bandwidth that using composite video is just fine. Don't fuss about

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-10-18 Thread Jan Stary
Replying to my original thread, > > > fwiw, I was capturing/encoding to mpeg4 with ffmpeg and a bktr. in > > > realtime, 3 years ago, on a not so fast machine, with OpenBSD. couldn't > > > quite do full DVD quality in realtime though. wouldn't surprise me at > > > all if it can be done with a d

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-08-18 Thread Paul M
On 19/08/2009, at 12:41 AM, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 05:49:22PM +1200, Paul M wrote: On 18/08/2009, at 3:48 PM, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:02:08PM +1200, Paul M wrote: On 18/08/2009, at 3:15 AM, Landry Breuil wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Ja

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-08-18 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 02:04:41PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > On Aug 18 03:58:03, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:43:45PM +0100, Peter wrote: > > > Jan Stary wrote: > > > >On Aug 17 16:06:05, Peter Kay - Syllopsium wrote: > > > > > > > >I wouldn't even consider converting someth

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-08-18 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 05:49:22PM +1200, Paul M wrote: > On 18/08/2009, at 3:48 PM, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > >On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:02:08PM +1200, Paul M wrote: > >>On 18/08/2009, at 3:15 AM, Landry Breuil wrote: > >> > >>>On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Jan-Erik Skata > >>>wrote: > On M

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-08-18 Thread Jan Stary
On Aug 18 03:58:03, Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:43:45PM +0100, Peter wrote: > > Jan Stary wrote: > > >On Aug 17 16:06:05, Peter Kay - Syllopsium wrote: > > > > > >I wouldn't even consider converting something that is readily available > > >in digital form. The analog VHS mate

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-08-17 Thread Paul M
On 18/08/2009, at 3:48 PM, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:02:08PM +1200, Paul M wrote: On 18/08/2009, at 3:15 AM, Landry Breuil wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Jan-Erik Skata wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Jan Stary wrote: I need to transfer some old VHS t

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-08-17 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:43:45PM +0100, Peter wrote: > Jan Stary wrote: > >On Aug 17 16:06:05, Peter Kay - Syllopsium wrote: > > > >I wouldn't even consider converting something that is readily available > >in digital form. The analog VHS material is not available elsewhere, > >and is slowly de

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-08-17 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:02:08PM +1200, Paul M wrote: > On 18/08/2009, at 3:15 AM, Landry Breuil wrote: > > >On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Jan-Erik Skata > >wrote: > >>On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Jan Stary wrote: > >> > >>>I need to transfer some old VHS tapes into (any) digital video

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-08-17 Thread Paul M
On 18/08/2009, at 3:15 AM, Landry Breuil wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Jan-Erik Skata wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Jan Stary wrote: I need to transfer some old VHS tapes into (any) digital video format. On OpenBSD of course. I understand I need All the bt848-based ca

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-08-17 Thread Peter
Jan Stary wrote: On Aug 17 16:06:05, Peter Kay - Syllopsium wrote: I wouldn't even consider converting something that is readily available in digital form. The analog VHS material is not available elsewhere, and is slowly deteriorating on these tapes. Otherwise : 1) Find decent hardware

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-08-17 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:26:45AM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote: > Landry Breuil wrote: > >On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Jan-Erik Skata wrote: > > > >>On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Jan Stary wrote: > >> > >> > >>>I need to transfer some old VHS tapes into (any) digital video format. > >>

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-08-17 Thread bofh
Wildly OT On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Jan Stary wrote: > (Do you by any chance live in one of those parts of the world where > the common understanding is that things are made in the US and other > parts of the world pirate them?) In some of those places, there is a significant believe th

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-08-17 Thread Jan Stary
On Aug 17 13:13:07, Chris Dukes wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 02:17:02PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > > I need to transfer some old VHS tapes into (any) digital video format. > > On OpenBSD of course. I understand I need > > > > (1) a VCR, obviously, to play those tapes > > (2) a TV card that can

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-08-17 Thread Jan Stary
On Aug 17 16:06:05, Peter Kay - Syllopsium wrote: >> From: "Jan Stary" >> I need to transfer some old VHS tapes into (any) digital video format. >> On OpenBSD of course. I understand I need >> >> (1) a VCR, obviously, to play those tapes >> (2) a TV card that can input what the VCR outputs >> (3)

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-08-17 Thread Claus Assmann
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009, Chris Bennett wrote: > As I understand, there is No Audio support for bktr, just video. Your understanding is wrong, audio and video work just fine.

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-08-17 Thread Chris Dukes
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 02:17:02PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > I need to transfer some old VHS tapes into (any) digital video format. > On OpenBSD of course. I understand I need > > (1) a VCR, obviously, to play those tapes > (2) a TV card that can input what the VCR outputs > (3) a piece of softwar

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-08-17 Thread Peter Kay - Syllopsium
From: "Jan Stary" I need to transfer some old VHS tapes into (any) digital video format. On OpenBSD of course. I understand I need (1) a VCR, obviously, to play those tapes (2) a TV card that can input what the VCR outputs (3) a piece of software that can capture the input Before I start shoppi

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-08-17 Thread Chris Bennett
Landry Breuil wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Jan-Erik Skata wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Jan Stary wrote: I need to transfer some old VHS tapes into (any) digital video format. On OpenBSD of course. I understand I need (1) a VCR, obviously, to play those tapes (2)

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-08-17 Thread Landry Breuil
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Jan-Erik Skata wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Jan Stary wrote: > >> I need to transfer some old VHS tapes into (any) digital video format. >> On OpenBSD of course. I understand I need >> >> (1) a VCR, obviously, to play those tapes >> (2) a TV card that

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-08-17 Thread Jan-Erik Skata
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Jan Stary wrote: > I need to transfer some old VHS tapes into (any) digital video format. > On OpenBSD of course. I understand I need > > (1) a VCR, obviously, to play those tapes > (2) a TV card that can input what the VCR outputs > (3) a piece of software that c

VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-08-17 Thread Jan Stary
I need to transfer some old VHS tapes into (any) digital video format. On OpenBSD of course. I understand I need (1) a VCR, obviously, to play those tapes (2) a TV card that can input what the VCR outputs (3) a piece of software that can capture the input Before I start shopping 80's style, does