MESSAGE
| DATE | 2002-06-21 |
| FROM | Ruben I Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Website updates
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Joe
I could use some help with the website.
Ruben
On 2002.06.21 13:42 joev_nylxs-at-pipeline.com wrote:
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> Thanks for the link MArco. I think this will work.
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> Joe
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> On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 12:55:25 -0400 Marco Scoffier
> wrote:
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> Hey Joe,
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> The project you mentioned uses teh bt8x8 chipsets which have had alot
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> of active development under linux see :
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> http://www.metzlerbros.org/bttv.html . I feel that you might have the
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> solution you are looking for in that project though, I have no
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> experience with that hardware.
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> My ati uses another chipset (which is supported by the gatos drivers
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> http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ ). It does hardware scaling. Mplayer
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> accesses this really smoothly. Writing to disk is my problem as I don't
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> yet have a scsi setup.
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> When the capture card goes to the screen there is hardly any cpu usage
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> at all, and the image is fine. As for software deinterlacing and
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> re-scaling thats what that nylug thread was about and there are
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> numerous reasons why the bandwidth is the clincher. You don't
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> necessarily have to go to disk, though this has always been my dream,
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> to have a full digital video editing facility (which would need to
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> write to disk and read from it at the uncompressed formats) with all
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> the power of free software.
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>
>
> On that note.
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> Last night I had a huge succes, and added another link in the chain. I
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> finally managed to get my own DV videos which I had gotten into the
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> linux box through firewire, re-encoded into mpeg4. Amazing compression
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> ratios, amazing quality, free software !! I couldn't be more excited.
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> I am going to try making mpeg2s which would allow me to make my own
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> dvds (subtitles work supposedly, and they are working on menus) the
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> interest is that I could distribute my content in DVD format !!!
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>
>
> Anyway there are many free/not-free issues surrounding digital video
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> (esp. the formats). All I know is that I used only freely available
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> (as in came with the linux kernel firewire drivers) stuff and got this
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> far.
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> --Marco
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> On 2002.06.21 09:40 joev_nylxs-at-pipeline.com wrote:
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> >
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> > Marco
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> >
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> > Last night I was able to do more research on the HT. It seems that the
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> > software is named dscaler and is used to deinterlace the video. It is
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> > open
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> > source but only runs under Windows OS.
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> >
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> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/deinterlace/
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> >
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> > This is what drives the capture card. I understand there may be a
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> > Linux port
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> > under deveoplment but it does look like it will happen soon. This
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> > could be a
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> > good project for someone who knows how to program.
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> >
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> > As far as the HD, every one seems to be using ide drives without any
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> > problems
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> > from the spee. TiVo uses ide drive and Linux to do all the
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> > downloading,
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> > compressing and spooling of signals.
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> >
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> > Looks like I'll either run the signal directly to the projector and
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> > let it
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> > handle the deinterlacing until a Linux port is available or have to
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> > use a
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> > Windows driven box and run dscaler.
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> >
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> > Joe
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