On Fri, 04 May 2007 13:24:33 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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. :) One possible way to "speed up" the process is, as you seem to have multiple tapes, capture them as .dv files and do a conversion for all of them buy a single run of the ffmpeg command (start it just before going to bed). Akemi
