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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. >
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