video capture

[Nathan England]

As much as I would love to use ogg, the problem is when you get into 
the 'real' world, people who use a computer but don't really care about it or 
know anything, have problems with ogg. I know all of us use it and it's 
great, but in reality, it's not that easy. 

People hav eto search for a codec or something, they stop and go away. In the 
case that I need this, I need to make it as easy as possible, and not shun 
away anyone. So I have to stick with something that everyone has.

nathan

On Wednesday 27 September 2006 12:17, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> Joseph,
>
>    Why not use Ogg?
>
>    http://www.vorbis.com/
>
> -jmz
>
> On 9/27/06, Joseph Sinclair <plug-discussion at stcaz.net> wrote:
> > Just a thought, but you might want to record to a simpler format than
> > AVI-wrapped whatever (something uncompressed perhaps...) to make it
> > easier on your system, and then convert to AVI after-the-fact.
> > AVI is actually a container spec, and may contain almost anything (from
> > MPEG to DivX to Indeo) as the core codec.
> > If you were to choose DivX, for instance, you could wrap that in AVI
> > using one of the many converters available, most likely without quality
> > loss, since it's just wrapping a container around the original file.
> >
> > Nathan England wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 27 September 2006 09:58, you wrote:
> > >> You might try motv (same package as xawtv, different interface).
> > >> There's also streamer, tvtime, vstream, or zapping.
> > >>
> > >> If all else fails, MythTV works great, but takes quite a bit of work
> > >> to
> >
> > get
> >
> > >> up and running.
> > >>
> > >> What's xawtv having trouble with?  Is it working, but not keeping up,
> >
> > not
> >
> > >> seeing the composite port, just too painful to use???
> > >
> > > It segfaults after recording and it doesn't record audio using the
> >
> > microsoft
> >
> > > avi format. Plus it is just painful to use. ha ha
> > >
> > > I am not against mythtv, not difficult to setup, but my hardware is not
> >
> > fast
> >
> > > enough to record and play back, so myth doesn't work real well for me,
> > > I
> >
> > only
> >
> > > need to record.
> > >
> > > Thank you for the suggestions of the other programs.
> > >
> > > nathan
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