[MPlayer-users] mencoder video card recommendation

[Martin Collins]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:54:29 -0800
"Andrew J. Yeckel" <ay2b at queue.org> wrote:

> For an upcoming event, I will be provided with a video feed (either
> composite/RCA video or S-Video, I don't know which yet), and a mono
> audio feed.  I would like to record the event and be able to later
> go back and edit the video to create a DVD of highlights.

Folk on the mjpeg-tools list swear by the Canopus ADVC-100. That will
give you DV which is editable and takes 12GB an hour.
You use dvgrab to capture and kino to edit: http://kino.schirmacher.de/
For creating DVDs mjpeg-tools or transcode may be better choices than
mencoder.

Martin