Rishi Gangoly rishi@theargoncompany.com writes:
On Monday 17 February 2003 6:40 pm, quasi wrote:
www.xvid.org
From their FAQ : "XviD is an ISO MPEG-4 compliant video codec. It's no product, it's an open source project which is developed and maintained by lots of people from all over the world."
mplayer plays files encoded with xvid.
Yeah but how does one dump the video from a VHS tape onto a computer? You need a hardware video / audio encoder right?
Or do you guys know something I don't?
Probably. A VCR/VCP for playing the VHS tape and a video capture card will do the trick. Most of the TV tuner cards also have video capture capablities. Even if you have to use M$ Windows, the final result can be an non-propieratory one.
www.virtualdub.org : Virtualdub is an open source program which runs on windows which can be used to convert from mpeg -> avi.
The avi can use completely non-propieratory codecs : audio - ogg vorbis and for video xvid(mpeg4).
Even in our office we have some card called SNAZZI that works on Windoze only. I checked for drivers for GNU/Linux ... no joy.
Well the important point here is the end result, which should be non-propieratory. The process could be run on any system though. Xvid have win32 binaries FYI.