Recommended hardware and software to capture video stream

[John-Mark Gurney]

Bill Stokes wrote this message on Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 17:24 -0500:
>        I have been asked to build a video capture system for a friend. He'd like 
>        a FreeBSD system with svideo input. I'm to grab a video stream from 
>        the svideo input and write an mpeg. My stream will vary from 30 minutes
>        to two hours in length. I believe the source will run at 30 frames per 
>        second.  He would like to input a filename for output and the number
>        of minutes to capture data. Can anyone recommend a video card
>        and the software required for data capture? 

Do you want MPEG-1 or MPEG-2?  If you just want MPEG-1 (320x240 or there
abouts), then a standard Bt848 card would work.  If you want MPEG-2,
there in a PVR-250+ that should do what you want.  The driver isn't
integrated into FreeBSD but was posted to this list recently.

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