[rescue] Re: Video encoding

[Chris Powell]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:09:29 -0500, "Dunehew, Seth" wrote:

> I have tons of old video tapes that I am converting to mpeg and burning in VCD
> format.  My son's 14 and he's just discovered all the old Dr. Who's and Blake
> 7s that I recorded 16-20 years ago during high school.  The tapes are really
> starting to degrade.
> 
> The question is what is a good system for doing this?  I'm currently using my
> "pee-cee", but I would still like to play games, and such during the encoding
> process.

At the risk of going on topic ;) Has anyone had success with sort of
thing with a SunVideo (SBus) or SunVideoPlus (PCi) card? I've had a
go with both of these cards (in a SS10 or U30) and not really had
much success - not sure how much of it is software (SunVideo) or
hardware limitations. Certainly, it's difficult keeping audio/video
in sync.


Chris.