Re: [Fsfe-uk] AFFSAC Help

[Jason Clifford]

On Wed, 5 May 2004 address@hidden wrote:

> Between us the commitee doesn't have enough know-how, equipment, knowledge 
> etc.
> to achieve either part of what is described above to a sastisfactory level. I
> did wonder about the possibility of using some kind of DV camera (with
> firewire?) and then using Free Software tools to re-encode the video 
> afterwards
> but I don't know enough about this kind of thing so I don't know if that would
> be feasable or possible.

I have a DV camera and a system with the necessary firewire ports.

The available Free Software for this was rather limited in its application 
when I last looked (over a year ago) however I think mplayer's encoder 
should do the job nicely enough once the video is put onto disk.

The biggest challenge with DV is size - just a couple of minutes of video 
can use a GB of storage!

I can probably produce VCD output. I am thinking of buying a DVD-+RW drive 
which would facilitate DVD quality output but I don't currently have the 
necessary cash so that wont happen in time.

Jason Clifford
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