Re: Fwd: Capture video from MiniDV over USB?

["bostonlinuxandunix" <user=37@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Matthew Gillen <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> John Abreau wrote: 
> > You get a DV stream from the firewire port of a MiniDV camcorder. 
> > That's uncompressed video, and for standard definition NTSC, it 
> > works out to about 12 GB per hour of video. 
> > 
> > The pvrusb2 provides an MPEG2 stream, which I believe is somewhere 
> > around 1 GB per hour. 
> > 
> > I would be really surprised if you could pull a clean DV stream across 
> > a usb connection. 
> > 
> 
>  I imagine that the USB version of the video is lower resolution.  For 
> example, my DV camcorder has a firewire interface that you get the hi-res 
> feed from, or you can use the USB interface but you get something more like 
> web-cam frame-rates (~1-5 fps vs. 30+ fps you get over firewire).  I haven't 
> used the USB feed more than to just see it work, so I don't know if there's 
> a difference in the encoding. 
>