Re: [Mjpeg-users] Best capture tools under Linux for V4L2?

2004-06-22 Thread Steven Ellis
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 17:45, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Steven Ellis wrote: > Get yourself a IEEE1394 card (very cheap) and a Canopus ADVC100 or > even better (but somewhat more expensive) ADVC300 analog to DV > converter. The ADVC300 has a TBC and denoisi

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Best capture tools under Linux for V4L2?

2004-06-22 Thread Maarten de Boer
> A nVidia FX5200 is __cheap__ and comes with a MPEG_2 decoder than > MPlayer and ffmpeg know how to tap into. Quite useful for playback > even when the system is under heavy load (since the decoding is > shoved out to the graphics card). Hey, that's really interesting, thanks. I have an nVidia F

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Best capture tools under Linux for V4L2?

2004-06-22 Thread Richard Ellis
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 07:31:58PM +1200, Steven Ellis wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 17:45, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Steven Ellis wrote: > > > Get yourself a IEEE1394 card (very cheap) and a Canopus ADVC100 > > or even better (but somewhat more expensive) ADVC300 analog t

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Best capture tools under Linux for V4L2?

2004-06-22 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Maarten de Boer wrote: > > A nVidia FX5200 is __cheap__ and comes with a MPEG_2 decoder than > > MPlayer and ffmpeg know how to tap into. Quite useful for playback > > Hey, that's really interesting, thanks. I have an nVidia FX5200, and I > had no idea. A bit of googling te

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Best capture tools under Linux for V4L2?

2004-06-22 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Steven Ellis wrote: > Well thanks for the interesting tip. Already considered this angle and > there are a couple of issues. Welcome! > 1. Can't really build a PVR around this, which is part of the long term > goal. You most certainly can. Might be an extr

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Best capture tools under Linux for V4L2?

2004-06-22 Thread Richard Ellis
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:57:43AM -0700, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Steven Ellis wrote: > > > 1. Can't really build a PVR around this, which is part of the > > long term goal. > > You most certainly can. Might be an extra (S-Video or composite) > cable or two involved bu

Re: [Mjpeg-users] capture from poor quality tapes

2004-06-22 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > > > I've got several home movies on vhs that my mom had had transfered from > > > 8mm film > > > The tapes are pretty poor quality > > > When I try to capture I get > > > > > > [home]$ lavrec -fa -in -d2 -q100 -m -U -w -c2 test%02d.avi > > > ++ WARN: [lavrec] Closing file(s) and exiting -

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Best capture tools under Linux for V4L2?

2004-06-22 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Richard Ellis wrote: > Quite true, assuming of course that one is duping vhs tapes off to > DVD. Which was one of the items mentioned - that's why I brought up the issue of being able to manipulate the data before encoding. > But, the posters implied usa

Re: [Mjpeg-users] capture from poor quality tapes

2004-06-22 Thread Ray Cole
I had this issue with my bt card. The video tape looked just fine on TV, but when I captured it would studder - it was duplicating frames, sometimes just a single field (which was really weird). The bttv module has a 'vcr_hack' option that eliminated this problem. I don't know if something si

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Best capture tools under Linux for V4L2?

2004-06-22 Thread Trent Piepho
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > cards are "adequate". For archival purposes, well, quality isn't > free/cheap ;( The other gotcha is that the analog cards (at least > the Bt878 based ones) going thru the v4l layer yield square pixels You are about that? I hav

[Mjpeg-users] yuvdenoise problems when SSE instructions used?

2004-06-22 Thread Jonathan Woithe
Hi all I have encountered something rather odd about yuvdenoise from mjpegtools 1.6.2 and the way it works on two different machines. In short, I encoded a video in two 90 minute sections using the same command line - one was on a (PII-vintage) Celeron 466 and one on a 3.0GHz P4 with hyperthreadi

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Best capture tools under Linux for V4L2?

2004-06-22 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Trent Piepho wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > cards are "adequate". For archival purposes, well, quality isn't > > free/cheap ;( The other gotcha is that the analog cards (at least > > the Bt878 based ones) going thru the v4l layer yi

Re: [Mjpeg-users] capture from poor quality tapes

2004-06-22 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Ray Cole wrote: Took a while to reformat the 2KB line into something readable... ;) > I had this issue with my bt card. The video tape looked just fine on TV, > but when I captured it would studder - it was duplicating frames, sometimes > just a single field (whic

Re: [Mjpeg-users] yuvdenoise problems when SSE instructions used?

2004-06-22 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Jonathan Woithe wrote: > I have encountered something rather odd about yuvdenoise from mjpegtools > 1.6.2 and the way it works on two different machines. In short, I encoded > a video in two 90 minute sections using the same command line - one was on a > (PII-vintage) Celero