On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:59:14AM -0600, Miller, John wrote:
> Has anyone done any video editing with their Linux machine. I am looking to build a new machine and am looking for pointers on components, mainly the video card. I would like video in and video out so I can transfer video tape to the computer. I am also thinking of taking some of the videos and making DVD's out of them.
>
I've done plenty of video capture with my primary system[1], I use avifile for
capture/encoding and if needed can dump it back out via S-Video[2] I can
do real-time divx encoding, 30fps 640x480 'good quality' with no problems.
I use this for recording star trek episodes and storing them on CD =P
The video card itself isn't really important for video editing, get
a bt848 based TV card with the inputs that you need, for output
you can use S-Video, or simply burn SVCD's that will play in any
DVD player (standard CD-R disk).
[1] PC Chips M830 SiS735 chipset (it's the ECS K7S5A)
512M DDR, 110G disk space (ATA100 IDE)
SCSI CD-RW, WinTV (bt848) TV card with RCA & standard
coax cable input, 1.3GHz Athlon "c" core
[2] I've got a Sigma Designs Hollywood Plus DVD decoder card that just
happens to have better S-Video output quality than my Voodoo3 so
I use it instead.
> The components that I am thinking about so far are
> AMD XP 1800 or 1900
> Elitegroups ESC K7S5A with the SIS735 chipset. Tomshardware gave it a good review.
> 512 MB DDR
> 36 GB SCSI Ultra 160 Drive
> SCSI DVD-Ram and CD-RW (2 components)
>
The memory and fast/large disk are important, I'm holding out for full capacity
DVD writers before investing.
> All thoughts are welcomed and appreciated.
>
> John Miller
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