[linux-dvb] Re: AW: Why compress a VDR movie again ?

[Axel Gruber <axelgruber2@gmx.de>]

> Yes, you are right with your assumption of about 2GB for a movie in VCD
> or SVCD style. But I would not like to buy any kind of properitary stuff
> like Sonys Double Density-CD or so. I hope DVD-RW will be in an
> acceptable price range soon. Hopefully within the next 12 month.
> In the meantime you have some other choices. Think about a tape-drive,
> that is used for video playback already several years ago (with a
> software called Direct Tape Access, as far as I remember). Also you can
> get a DVD-RAM drive with 2.6 or 4.7 GB per side. Typically you have
> 5.2GB with Generation I, or 9.2 GB with Generation 2 Drives, enough for
> several movies or sequels. Also it would be quite easy to move your
> movies to DVD-R(W) as soon as the medium and the recorder are
> affordable.
DVD-RAM is to expensive - not the Drive - but the MEDIA - and you have also to switch the disk to the other side to get the aditional 5,5 GB.. - the other thing is, that the DVD-RAM system is extremly slow !!! 

> Right now I'v got a 60GB HDD in my server for video stuff and a 40GB

I have now 4*60GB in my VDR and aditional 2*80GB in my Server attached with a 100MBIT LAN.


> For another task, bitrate reduction is also neccessary. I just started
> with my wireless network connection between my VDR, my server machine
> and my notebook, but I would like to copy files for archiving to my
> server and or to my notebook to watch them. There is no way to connect
> the VDR with wires right now. So medium conservation and therefore
> bitrate reduction is a neccessary task. Also a 11Mbps wireless link is
> not very fast (about 650 kB/s), it is a good idea to convert the movie
> to it's target format, I choose OpenDivX, before the transfer. Precise
> cutting of cutting of the final movie is also better done on the
> workstation than with VDR.

> Just my idea, what is possible with such a digital video solution.
> Hopefully my solutions are also usefull for others and I can contribute
> my hacked code to the VDR project.

I think this is a good idea !
But - the new CD-Format from Toshiba is 3*CD = 2 GB - and the Price for the Medium and the Drive should also be as low as the aktual CD-Writers.

DVD-R or DVD RW is sure a good idea - but i donīt think that the Medium is so cheap :-(

DVD-R Devices should be start at 2000 DM - thatīs ok - but if a Disk will cost 30 DM - thatīs too much...

CU




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