On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 19:34 +0100, steef wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 16:10 +0100, nullman wrote: > > > > > >>So you need some way to connect the camera (or player) to your > >>computer. > >>You have a player or the camera, right ? otherwise things will get > >>difficult. > >> > >>A Digitizer-Card will provide the connection (with S-Video cable for > >>example) an digitize the Video into some file-format. > >>You get those cards pretty cheap on ebay - mostly a software is > >>included. > >> > >> > > > >To clarify: are these Hi-8 *video* tapes or Hi-8 *movies*? > > > > > > > ...the eldest are *movies* >10 years old. the rest (about 8 years old) > are *video_tapes*, so my wife told me.
You'll *have* to bring the movies to a camera store. For the video tapes, find (and buy?) an analog Hi-8 camcorder that has an S-Video output jack, then (buy?) a video capture card that Linux can drive. All in all, it might be easier to bring the video tapes in with the movies. Not the Hacker Way, though, of course... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA "Why do we have to hide from the police, Daddy?" "Because we use vi, son. They use emacs." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
