[H-GEN] Video Capture under your choice of Unix.

[David Jericho]

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On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:22:32AM +0100, Bruce Campbell wrote:
> > I'm looking at producing DivX formatted output.  I'd prefer not to use
> > proprietary video formats as my output.
> 
> The format touted by the A/V mass marketing campaign is really starting to
> annoy me, mainly because only its own, rather annoyingly popular player,
> will deal with said format properly.  If I move away from that 'Real'
> format, I get a lot more players, and things 'just work'.

The DivX crowd reduce me to tears sometimes. I'm no expert on
video formats and so on, but I can tell with comparitive ease the
difference between a DVD MPEG and a DivX steam. Of course, stored
media replay isn't the issue here.

> > The Osprey cards are quite good.  They are most definitely not cheap,
> > but they are solid.

Any good video capture source is not cheap. An example was the
DV500 of my brothers. $2500AUD was around the list price in .au when it was
released. Video hardware of course is subject to the same laws as
audio gear. Increased price with diminishing returns.

> [1] Big venue, running s-video over the in-venue cat5, someone nearly
>     plugged ISDN into the patches I was using.  Ethernet isn't pleasant
>     either.

*Za-za-zapp* I'm a big fan of coloured cables, boots, and even jacks.
Gives me a valid reason to put the steel capped boot into the person
when they ignore previous instructions and conventions.

-- 
David Jericho
Senior Systems Administrator, Bytecomm Pty Ltd


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