OT: Using kino on fc5; convert dv to mpeg2

[Akemi Yagi]

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