video capture

[Nathan England]

I am video taping people speaking and different events happening, then we want 
to make that video available on video cd or downloadable off our web site.
It has to be avi as the majority of our visitors will more than likely be 
windows people. This is not a paid project so I can not pay for software or a 
new machine to do this with. 

Since the only systems I have run linux, I really want to do this with linux, 
but if it's not possible, and it's looking to really be more of a pain than 
it's worth, I will get a copy of windows. 

The only equipment I am purchasing is a DvdExpress 2 USB capture box for 
capturing the video/audio onto a machine. 

I have two laptops that I use for everything, and I really want to avoid 
putting windows on one of them... 

Ogg just isn't an option. It doesn't work well in the windows world where 
people don't know how to download codecs, nor want the hastle.

nathan


On Wednesday 27 September 2006 13:24, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> I figured that he had a reason for choosing AVI, most likely a need to pass
> the videos on to Windows prisoners (who can play AVI, for most codecs,
> straight-up, but may have difficulty playing OGG/Theora files).
>
> OGG is actually a container format as well, much like AVI (nobody uses it
> like this, but OGG can contain MP3, AAC, FLAC, MPEG, DivX, Indeo, YUV,
> etc....). Vorbis is the free audio codec often confused with OGG (since it
> always is packaged in OGG) (hence the proper OGG/Vorbis), and wouldn't be
> usable for a video capture project. Theora is the free video codec
> associated with OGG (OGG/Theora), and is a variant of the VP3 codec.
>
> ==Joseph++
>
> 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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