[mythtv-users] Will this work for me? Was: New Setup

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 03:23:30PM -0400, Ed Weinberg wrote:
> I want to do even less than this.  I am looking for a way to pull in
> video from my handycam through the S-Video port on my WinTV-PVR-250 and
> crop and splice the video.
> 
> Have I come to the right place?

Probably not.  You really only need to set up some sort of capture
card, using video4linux(2) and find a capture program and editing
software.

You'll get differing opinions on whether you want to MPEG such footage
at capture time: I don't think so, Erik Slagter (on the v4l list) says
it doesn't matter.

Then you'll want to set up MainActor, Cinelerra, or something similar
in the non-linear editing realm, and cut away...

Cheers,
-- jra
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