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Watch TV over FireWire
Authored by: davegoulden on Apr 19, '03 03:03:48PM

I'd like to do totally the opposite. I have a 60 mins video in DV format on a
tape that I can edit just fine in iMovie. I don't really want to edit it, just
convert it to mpeg 4. The problem is that iMovie creates mossive
files, I only have 3 gigs of space left on my HDD and DV takes up way too
much space (60 mins would need about 750 gigs, from my calculations).

Is there anyway to stream in DV over Firewire and have Quicktime encode on
the fly into mpeg4/DivX/mpeg 2/ other supported format?

Any ideas?



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Watch TV over FireWire
Authored by: ericasadun on Apr 20, '03 01:26:59AM

> Is there anyway to stream in DV over Firewire and have
Quicktime encode on
> the fly into mpeg4/DivX/mpeg 2/ other supported format?
> Any ideas?

Use Monitor > Video Settings in Hack TV and set the
video to MPEG4. I had no problem doing realtime MPEG4.

I don't think you can do realtime MPEG2 without hardware.



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Watch TV over FireWire - MPEG4 Realtime
Authored by: tmerritt on Apr 24, '03 05:08:57PM
Use Monitor > Video Settings in Hack TV and set the video to MPEG4. I had no problem doing realtime MPEG4.

Couldn't get this to work for me... Ti800MHz, HackTV Carbon. Chose MPEG4 Codec as you suggest, no joy. Any other tips?

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Watch TV over FireWire
Authored by: david-bo on Apr 20, '03 06:58:48PM

> I only have 3 gigs of space left on my HDD and DV takes up way too
> much space (60 mins would need about 750 gigs, from my calculations).

Your calculations are slightly out of order…DV takes 216 MB/min = 60 min requires ≈ 13GB of disk space. Where did you get your ridicilously high number from?



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