TLUG Sliding Scale

[Anton Markov]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Why wouldn't you just connect the DV cam to a firewire port and dump the
> ram DV mpeg2 data to the machine, and then convert it down in resolution
> if necesary or to divx (or other mpeg4 format)?  The mpeg2 compression
> is much better than mpeg1 and would result in a much smaller file.
> mpeg4 of course is way better compression where you can get almost
> DVD quality at about 350M/hour or so.

I also agree that MPEG4 is far superior to MPEG2. The only reason one 
would use MPEG2 is to play the VideoCD/DVD in a DVD player. For online 
distribution MPEG4+BitTorrent would be perfect.

Just make sure you de-interlace the video and maybe even downscale it a 
little too (in that order).

I would love to see videos of that meeting!

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Anton Markov <("anton" + "@" + "truxtar" + "." + "com")>

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