Russia 2004 Trip

On April 25, 2004, Mary and her sisters Deb and Andy set out on a trip to Russia.

The video is 2.0G, unedited; it contains 58 minutes from the trip plus some TV shows leftover on the VHS tape:

Colophon: Technical Details

The VHS tape was digitized by connecting a VCR to our Canon ZR40, which has a D->A converter and produces DV out its firewire/1394 port. Then it was captured and converted to SVCD format using ffmpeg:

$ ffmpeg -t 2:00:00 -f dv -i /dev/dv1394/0 -target ntsc-svcd 'Russia 2004 Trip'.mpg

ffmpeg describes the results as:

Input #0, mpeg, from 'Russia 2004 Trip.mpg':
  Duration: 01:59:59.9, start: 0.500000, bitrate: 2290 kb/s
    Stream #0.0[0x1e0]: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 480x480 [PAR 4:3 DAR 4:3], 2516 kb/s, 29.97 tb(r)
    Stream #0.1[0x1c0]: Audio: mp2, 44100 Hz, stereo, 224 kb/s

A couple frames were extracted and resized; see Makefile for details.

-rw-r--r-- 1 connolly connolly      13588 2009-01-02 18:26 mary-deb-andy-med.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 connolly connolly     347570 2009-01-02 10:48 mary-deb-andy.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 connolly connolly 2061896956 2009-01-02 03:04 Russia 2004 Trip.mpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 connolly connolly      36888 2009-01-02 10:39 russia-2004-vhs-label.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 connolly connolly     663731 2009-01-02 10:35 russia-2004-vhs-label-scan.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 connolly connolly      13875 2009-01-02 18:26 russia-apr24-med.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 connolly connolly     317880 2009-01-02 10:50 russia-apr24.png

See also: Reviving Home Movies with kino, 1 Jan 2009 in my advogato open source journal.