[MPlayer-users] best format to grab dv

[Heitzso]

I believe raw is considered slightly better because it has
not already compressed beyond what DV defines.

>i have some videos on a dv camera that i want to transfer to the computer
>and then encode to dvd format, possibly also to mpeg4.
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>i have many questions, but the first one is: which is the most convenient
>format to grab the video into for later encoding with mencoder? dvgrab
>allows dv1, dv2 and raw, but i don't have criteria to choose one.
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>help or hints would be greatly appreciated.
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>best,
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>lj
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