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Posted by Specs on 10/05/17 11:38
"Nappy" <noemail@all.com> wrote in message
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> "Frank" <frank@nojunkmail.humanvalues.net> wrote in message
> news:haoot1hl2nb2elnk0528vkueb6f26k4ngj@4ax.com...
> > On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 02:58:15 GMT, in 'rec.video.production',
> > in article <Re: HDV capture on under-powered PC>,
> > "Nappy" <noemail@all.com> wrote:
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> > >"Frank" <frank@nojunkmail.humanvalues.net> wrote in message
> > >news:ed0mt1lmmbls31cmnejgrauvr5gl2nm413@4ax.com...
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> > >> Others decompress the (long-GOP) HDV MPEG-2 Transport Stream into an
> > >> I-frame-only MPEG-2 Program Stream and write an .mpg file to disk.
> > >> Here, obviously, a codec is involved, although all that it's doing is
> > >> a normal MPEG-2 decoding operation. No quality loss is involved.
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> > >that makes editing easier..!
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> > Much easier, since most of the work is already done.
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> Well.. easier for the coders anyway. Or the codec! :|
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But much harder on the hard drives. The intermediate codecs (e.g. Cineform
and DNxHD) tend to put uncompressed SD type loads on hard drives so user
reduces the CPU stress only to find their hard drives are not up to the job
of playing back several streams of HD.
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