For the MaJoStudio, trying to get video from our Sony Handycam video8 into iMovie... we went for a digital camcorder.
6May2003: another nifty slashdot article. "Honestly, 720x540 is the minimum acceptable digital analogue of the NTSC spec." -- a comment.
28Dec2002: tried a Belkin USB Videobus II (F5U208-MAC. UPACode: 722868357583 7-22868-35758-3). Belkin tech support FAQ claims it works in OS X, but I couldn't get any picture. I booted OS 9; it sorta worked, but I sound was greyed out in the video capture software (even though I could hear the sound from the tape thru the speakers).
Hmm... ffmpeg for OS X 2002-12-26 version 0.0.4h
16Nov2002
This bttv card works pretty well as a v4l device.
ffmpeg@@ groks well enough. Hmm... can't seem to do realtime mpeg encoding at decent size/framerate.
320x240 is the best size I'm gonna get, per this linux video tutorial
Hmm... zapping looks interesting: "# Realtime MPEG recording." Well, it seems to work well as a viewer... now, how to get it to record? hmm... mpeg plug-in doesn't seem to be part of DebianPackage:zapping.
Hmm... this making movies article describes about what I want to do, except (1) I'm not using firewire to get the video into the machine, and (2) to I really have to do that split/encode/multiples stuff?
hmm... back to mjpegtools...
hmm.. this sorta worked, but it's b/w:
lavrec --software-encoding --input T -g 320x240 game.avi
hmm... trying dvr again... I sure like the interactive configuration, with preview... bummer... craps out when I say "go", looking for lame libraries... ok, install that...
in #livid, somebody recommended transcode; failed to build, but I found debian packages... ooh! cool diagram of formats/encodings
Hmm... a howto
another clue from #livid: rmmod bttv && modprobe bttv gbuffers=4
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