hardware mpeg2 compression /firewire

merry · Oct 26, 2006, 03:05 AM

A friend of mine has bought a DV video camera and wants to make DVDs of his DV cassettes. He owns a FX5900XT Vivo from MSI, which has an "Integrated NTSC/PAL TV encoder"; he can do (with WinDVD) TV capture to MPEG2 in real time.

I have no experience with either mpeg2 hardware, dv cameras and firewire interfaces... Can someone here please answer these questions:

1. does the above mean there is hardware MPEG2 support in the video card?
2. if so, can this hw be used for other inputs than the onboard analog video (Vivo card), e.g. firewire adapter or avi file on hdd?
3. if so, how?

Alternatively, can you suggest a solution (hw+sw) for dv to dvd through firewire?

Thanks in advance

***temeteus82*** · Oct 26, 2006, 05:18 AM

DV cams have firewire (4pin) output. So capturin videos form cam can bee done with firewire.
I'm currently doing DVD's form DV cam material I use Sony Vegas to capturing and editing and DVD Architect 4.0 for making DVD's.
Basically I recommend that your friend uses some capture software to capture video via firewire to his computer and there edit it and encode it to DVD. Some cameras comes with capture software. But Microsoft's Windows Moviemaker can do the job.

Hope this helps.

Nforce2XP · Oct 27, 2006, 11:02 PM

DV video from camera it's a tranfer media, nothing will be encoded to your computer,
it will be pure digital footage from the original (the dv tape of your friend).
It will around 13 gigas per hour of size, and then you need to convert it to mpeg2, wich is the last process to finish to a DVD.
you either can use an encoder software like mainconcep, canopus procoder, or use the software that my fellow temeteus82, or use a complete program like ulead dvd workshop , video studio from ulead too.
the one that i like it's ulead workshop 2, it's easy and reliable, there are many options to create a dvd shynni dvd from DV material.
Also look at this website: www.videohelp.com there you will find a lot of free programs to create dvd's, vcd's, svcd's, and get a lot more information in how to understand and create your own proffetional DVD's , well i hope you enjoy the learning , becouse i did and it's just amayzing

Jeremy of Many · Jan 27, 2007, 04:01 AM

The footage from the DVC will be raw AVI (DV AVI). This is about 14 GBs per hour of footage IIRC. Open the AVI files in VirtualDub, frameserve them to TMPGEnc and encode to MPEG-2 at a bitrate that will allow you to burn your finished project on a DVD+/-R (4.7 GB). Author the DVD as well if you wish with TMPGenc DVD Author or DVDAuthorGUI (freeware).