Posted by Steve M on 06/20/06 11:55

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.

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.

Thanks much,
Steve

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