<br><br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>As far as producing DVD's is concerned, my daughter does all that,<br>using Windows based software. I think it came free with the last PC we
<br>bought.<br><br>If you want to keep a lot of footage on-line, you may need to compress<br>it. My camcorder produces something like 10-12GB per hour, which is<br>way too much for me to keep online. I have played with both mencoder
<br>and transcode, with reasonable success. Mencoder is (I think) part of<br>mplayer, so is likely to be on most myth boxes that have Myth Video<br>installed, but it seems slow. Transcode comes from <a href="http://www.transcoding.org">
www.transcoding.org</a>,<br>but I seem to remember that it does not do DV format 'out of the box',<br>so I had to compile it.<br><br>I hope this helps, at least a little.<br><br>Guy Dawso<br></blockquote><div><br><br>This is what I was looking for. Sounds like I should keep doing DV stuff on my PC and move the AVI files over to myth to view for fun, maybe with a transcode to save space...
<br><br>My avi playback is still not the best, but I bet it improves if I transcode it down...<br><br>Thanks! <br> <br><br><br><br></div><br></div>