[MPlayer-users] Digital camcoder

[Grzegorz Borowiak]

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, D Richard Felker III wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 05:36:05PM +0100, Grzegorz Borowiak wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Ehlo!
> >
> > I'm about to buy a digital camcoder. I consider mainly Sony's products (I
> > need their night shot feature). Is this possible to connect camcoder to PC
> > and run mencoder in such way that it would perform on-the-fly encoding
> > what camera sends through USB? Or should I pull the whole uncompressed
> > movie through USB to disk and then encode?
> >
> > Maybe somebody here has some experience with camcoders (esp. Sony's)?
>
> If you intend to use a dv camera in conjunction with computers, be
> ABSOLUTELY SURE to get a PAL model with progressive mode. I expect
> you'll already be getting PAL anyway since that's the standard in
> Europe, but you should be aware that NTSC DV is unusably bad (horrible

Do NTSC really suck so much? How do Americans cope with this? Do they have
a quality loss when converting to/from mpeg/divx?

> quality loss when converting to/from mpeg/divx). Dealing with
> interlaced video really sucks too, so you want a progressive camera.

Yes, interlace is bad.

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