[mythtv-users] Video Cam to AVI, AVI to DVD, AVI playback ??

[Ed Gatzke]

> As far as producing DVD's is concerned,  my daughter does all that,
> using Windows based software.  I think it came free with the last PC we
> bought.
>
> If you want to keep a lot of footage on-line,  you may need to compress
> it.  My camcorder produces something like 10-12GB per hour,  which is
> way too much for me to keep online.  I have played with both mencoder
> and transcode,  with reasonable success. Mencoder is (I think) part of
> mplayer, so is likely to be on most myth boxes that have Myth Video
> installed, but it seems slow.  Transcode comes from www.transcoding.org,
> but I seem to remember that it does not do DV format 'out of the box',
> so I had to compile it.
>
> I hope this helps, at least a little.
>
> Guy Dawso
>


This is what I was looking for.  Sounds like I should keep doing DV stuff on
my PC and move the AVI files over to myth to view for fun, maybe with a
transcode to save space...

My avi playback is still not the best, but I bet it improves if I transcode
it down...

Thanks!
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