video to pc

[Stu]

One for the tech heads. Have a video that I really don't want to wear out playing all the time. What would be involved in uploading (?) it to my laptop to burn to cd or dvd?
Cheers

 

[dunc]

I have transfered video to pc then onto dvd using:

A tv-tuner/capture card (with its relevant software)- which has s-video and composite video inputs - connect up audio and video cables and just record what comes in from them - then used some dvd authoring software to sort out basic menu and to burn it to disc..

 

[bubba]

Yeah, you need a TV card or facility of some sort - some soundcards support a firewire input that you can use - I'm guessing that your average laptop hasn't got such facilities so you may be out of luck.

Or, find the video on the p2p networks if possible, and burn a DVD player compatible copy of that.

 

[Stu]

Cheers. Not got facility on laptop but have on the boys pc. p2p me? Never?!!

:twisted:

 

[bubba]

Just steer clear of Kazaa and the other big networks as they're starting to prosecute UK users for sharing music now.

 

[dunc]

Yeah, you need a TV card or facility of some sort - some soundcards support a firewire input that you can use - I'm guessing that your average laptop hasn't got such facilities so you may be out of luck.

You can get external USB based cards instead of the internal ones which would solve the problem for a laptop - not sure what they are like though..?

they're starting to prosecute UK users for sharing music now

Miserable buggers ain't they

 

[biffa]

Another thing: if you're looking to edit or encode the video there is a free piece if software available called Virtual dub, which is very powerful (once you work out how to use it!)

 

[Dave H]

You could probably do much worse than "Dazzle DVC 80 - USB Analogue Video Capture Device including Pinnacle Studio QuickStart Editing Software" for about £40 incl. VAT
The hardware development guy who sits behind me at work has just bought the Pinnacle PCI card that captures analogue and digital TV and he is very impressed with it!

 

[bubba]

they're starting to prosecute UK users for sharing music now

Miserable buggers ain't they

Yes they are but it's just the death throws of a dying industry desperately (and futilely) trying to stop technological progress. My thoughts (bored at work ) :

- "Home taping" didn't kill music, neither did the CD writer and cheap CD/ROMs

- File sharing won't kill music either....though it may kill some of the fat cats who feed upon the industry. In it's current form the music industry is like a dinosaur facing extinction. The industry needs to get it's head out of it's ass and accept that it has to change it's business model.

- It's not actually illegal to download music in the UK, only to share it for upload.

- Almost all of the prosecutions involved Kazaa which is only used by newcomers to p2p who don't know any better.

- You can't reverse technology :: no matter how hard they try to prosecute and regulate, p2p isn't going away.

- New p2p technologies are springing up all the time :: all these prosecutions will do is fuel the drive to create more secure and anonymous technologies

- The whole "downloading music is putting artists out of business" idea is crap. Many people download a few tracks and then go out and buy an album which they would never have considered buying normally. Very little of the money from a CD sale goes to the artist. I'd rather buy tracks directly from an artists' website for a small fee than line the pockets of the record moguls by buying a CD from the highstreet.

So what do you do if you want to file share in safety?

- Keep an eye on http://slyck.com for latest news regarding p2p in general and new technologies
- Reduce your *public* share to a sensible amount, I share <500 files with the general public now, and nearly all of them are non-chart stuff.
- Set up private networks with your friends - we use Exosee but there's things like Waste which are fully encrypted and super-safe.

 

[SamT]

Have a video that I really don't want to wear out playing all the time

Play it that regularly and its not all you'll wear out - and you'll go blind.

 

[Stu]

Have a video that I really don't want to wear out playing all the time

Play it that regularly and its not all you'll wear out - and you'll go blind.

Fnaar fnaar!! That's all on cd-rom!!

And when did bubba get to be so subversive? I'm shocked, and him a moderator too!!! :twisted:

 

[newcastlecaver]

i have the dazzle software and it is very easy to use, i use it for putting analogue video from camcorder onto DVD, can't see why it wouldn't work for normal video?