Re: about the video+administration meeting...
On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 06:53, John Lightsey wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 01:07 +0200, Herman Robak wrote:
>
> > I'd recommend recording directly to harddrive. A laptop and a USB
> > harddrive can record a day's worth of video. I have aslo suggested
> > sending the DV stream over the network to a server with big disks.
> > That would help a lot with timely compression and publishing.
>
> This sounds good to me if it will work reliably.
It works like a charm. If you have large file support and
firewire support that is not flaky, it is just as reliable as
tape. I would use laptops, since they run on battery.
I prefer dvgrab. I don't need GUI for batch jobs.
Is there a simple way to "tee" a file to a server;
that is, copying the file while it is grabbed? That
would allow the laptop to buffer several gigabytes,
in case of network outages.
> I haven't experimented with recording directly to PC
> but it would eliminate quite a bit of wasted time.
Indeed! Real-time compression and streaming from the laptop is also
possible, if the laptop is powerful. But let's solve one problem at
a time...
> I don't have a USB drive to try it out on, but I can try recording a 5
> or 6 hour stretch of video directly to an IDE drive when I get some free
> time next week.
You will need USB highspeed (USB2) for grabbing. USB1 would be
useless for our purposes. USB drives or network transfers could
be used during long breaks. I can make room for 2-3 hours
continuous recording on my laptop.
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Herman Robak
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