Re: OT: Using kino on fc5; convert dv to mpeg2

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On Friday 04 May 2007, James Pifer wrote:
>I've been googling and haven't come up with much. I have some DV tapes I
>want to capture and convert to MPEG2. I can capture the video using
>kino, which creates a 15+ GB file for a 60 min tape. Using kino to
>export this to MPEG2 is taking a long time. Been going 25 minutes and
>there's an estimated 6 hours to go! Machine is a Celeron 2.66 Ghz.
>
>Is there a better way? Is there anything that can capture right to
>MPEG2?
>
>Thanks,
>James

That sounds about right, the last wedding I shot was 22 minutes of video, and 
it took my XP2800 about 90 minutes to export it as mpeg2.  Since you are 
compressing on the fly, its not anything like a realtime operation.  Be 
patient. :)

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Cheers, Gene
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