Re: [Fsfe-uk] AFFSAC Help

[Martyn]

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On Wednesday 05 May 2004 20:47, Jason Clifford wrote:
> I have a DV camera and a system with the necessary firewire ports.

I have access to a DV camera with firewire, for the purposes of fetching the 
DV tapes to DVD.

> 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.

mencoder doesn't create dvd-compatible mpeg2, but I have a script, remplexing 
them so can create dvd-compatible mpeg2, but I digress...

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

indeed.  I have access to a decent amount of storage, however :-)

> 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.

I already have this and don't mind dedicating the machine to doing the 
transcode, and have started messing about with DVD-menus too :-)  I don't 
mind doing this, and can even aquire printable DVDs and print them*, but I 
might not get to the conference, so would need someone to post the DV tapes 
to me to transfer them to DVDs.

> Jason Clifford

* I would donate the blank DVDs but at the moment cannot afford to purchase 
them unless reimbursed, sorry.  The cost of posting to each person who wants 
a copy I could probably manage.  We'd need to cover the cost of the media, 
but I don't mind doing occational runs.  I can also upload an appropriate 
format avi(xvid-ogg?)/mpeg-1 file to somewhere appropriate so people can 
download it.

So there, I've made my offer of time to the cause :-)

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Martyn Ranyard
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