[NBLUG/talk] Video 4 Linux

[Scott Doty]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 06:40:57PM -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 16:32, Scott Doty wrote:
> > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 01:23:48PM -0700, Kyle Rankin wrote:
> > > I've had good results with the cheap ATI TV Wonder VE tv capture card.  It
> > > uses the bt848 chipset, which works fine under Linux.
> 
> Yes although you may have to reference the docs on the module to get it
> set to work with the proper tuner/cable box.
> 
> That's the only problem I ran into.
> 
> Otherwise a great capture card.

After some research, I decided to just slap a capture card into my current
workstation.  The cap card, a Hauppage WinTV DBX, arrives FedEx today. 
(This uses that bt848 chipset -- same as the ATI TV Wonder VE.  I've heard
from multiple sources that the Brooktree chipset is the way to go under
Linux.  The Hauppage also includes a tuner.)

Video gets to my machine via a wireless 2.4 GHz video/stereo audio extender. 
This saves me from having to run something like 50 feet of cable.

I was concerned about video editing under Linux, but it turns out that
freshmeat.net has plenty of non-linear editors.  I'm going to try Cinelerra
first:

   http://freshmeat.net/projects/cinelerra/?topic_id=256%2C120

The point of the video editor is to edit out commercials for captured video
that I decide to keep.  My primary application is to cap late-night Cartoon
Network shows from their "Adult Swim" lineup -- namely, Cowboy Bebop and
Trigun.

 -Scott