http://www.dmcasucks.org - link to Ed Hintz's site... he was kind enough to post
Materials needed Hardware:
Sharp hi 8 camcorder VLE600
Audio/video output jack in the back already.
Wintv card (not firewire or USB)- Use drivers for the main chip which supports many cards - GPL'd
Wintv card comes with s-vhs to composite converter
BT848 driver supports a lot of cards
For better audio, ensonic pci audio using the es1371 driver which is also GPL'd.
Converters - y adapter and rca
Since the camcorder is mono, and the sound card doesn't have rca jacks got two converters - one y adapter to monoaudio from camera and an rca to 1/8 inch phono for stereo input to have identical channels.from radio shack.
Debian unstable -sid kernel 2.4.9
AMD Duron 750, 128 MB ram which is probably more than the minimum you need.
BOX cost
Case + mboard = $149
Duron = $59.99
RAM = $24.00
TV card (NOT usb nor firewire)= $99
Sound card = $39.99
20 gig drive = $49.99
Total for Debian Box = $421.97 (plus tax)
Camcorder = $239
Radio Shack adapters = $6
Total for all equipment = 667 (plus tax where applicable)
So if you have no equipment at all, you can do this for about $700 dollars.
Note: These are more than the minimum requirements for getting the job done, so you could probably do it for less.
Software:
FFMPEG
Steps to creating good quality video using only free software
1. Once box is built then connect adapters to tv and sound cards accordingly
2. Record Film to tape in Camcorder
3. Connect Camcorder to Adapters -
4. Find FFMPEG (apt-get) or http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/ Compile ffmpeg - standard compilation
3 steps (standard)
a ./configure
b. make
c. make install
5. Open Xawtv
XAWTV Use xawtv (GPL)for the settings
a. Under controlling the tv card
b. Change television setting to composite 1
c. CLOSE xawtv before running ffmpeg
6. Open an xterm and type the settings for ffmpeg to capture directly to mpeg.
12 = frames per second
1024 = quality of frames
44100 = samples per second
192 = quality of samples
384x288 = size
out.mpg = filename
7. Hit Return
8. Select the Q key on the keyboard to stop recording.
9. Open XMMS or some viewer that supports the format.
10. Open file.
Film can be digitized in AVI or other formats using the equipment described here. Simply connect the camcorder to the box and use xawtv to record in avi format.
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