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Posted by Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] on 06/21/06 18:04
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:55:13 -0400, "Steve M" <nomail@for.me> wrote:
>Next month I will be working in a booth on a convention floor. I will be in
>the position of having to receive bunches VHS tapes and DVDs from clients,
>and convert them to mpegs. I will play these mpegs in a playlist using
>media player, to a collection of monitors that plays throughout the day. I
>have a nice external Sony analog-to-DV box. My question is this - what is
>the best application for capturing DV video directly to mpeg? I am looking
>for a 4mbit mpeg or so as the final product, to split the difference between
>quality and filesize.
I'm having trouble visualising this - you're saying you'll capture
VHS, and are you intending to play it back while capturing ?
I wonder if it might be as simple (given the low bandwidth of VHS)
simply to plug a TV card into the box, if necessary using that to MPEG
the input directly while playing it back.
DVD of course *is* MPEG2 video, so again I'm unclear if you want to
conver DVD-MPEG -> Analog -> DV -> MPEG2, it seems rather long winded
to me (without knowing what the reason is for that loop)
>The idea behind using media player is: Video runs fullscreen on monitors
>while PC stays showing a desktop. In this way the playlist can be added to
>or shuffled as needed while the videos play, providing a nonstop image to
>the booth.
I'm assuming you mean using windows media professional exhibitor ?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/encoder/utilities.aspx
It will be worth sorting out your overlay settings on the second
monitor beforehand, to be sure of the right result.
WMP will play on the primary surface (an overlay) unless you change
the settings in Tools -> Options -> Performance -> Advanced -just in
case you unexpectedly see a black playback area on the 2nd output).
Most graphics cards of course can be configured to do without
overlays, but you'd have to know which settings to mung.
Cheers - Neil
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