Tom Stanley
2004-07-06 15:26:55 UTC
Hello-
I edit my home video in iMovie on a Mac. My goal is to be able to view some
of these movies on my HD1000. I am looking for a tool to do the necessary
conversion. I have a SPARC-based Sun system to be the server.
I believe iMovie can output a QuickTime movie that is still just DV format.
I think I need to encode that to MPEG-2, right? I have looked at
mplayer/mencoder but it looks complex and I don't want to start putting that
together if it's not necessary.
Would VLC help with this, or would it only serve the files after I convert
them with something else? Again, the list of libraries required by VLC is
daunting for me, so I'd like to know this is the right direction before
starting that project.
So far I have ripped a DVD to .vob files and served them through samba. For
general information, I was serving it from an Ultra5 over 100bT and it was
not going well. I would get about 3 secs. of video then maybe a 1/2 sec.
pause. I got my hands on a Sun Blade 150 (550 MHz vs. 270 MHz) and now it
streams beautifully using CinemaSix 1.0b. I did not see any lip sync
problems either. It may be samba overhead. Sounds from the list that http
streaming is the way to go--if I can get VLC to compile (I am in no way a
programmer).
Thanks for the help.
-Tom Stanley
I edit my home video in iMovie on a Mac. My goal is to be able to view some
of these movies on my HD1000. I am looking for a tool to do the necessary
conversion. I have a SPARC-based Sun system to be the server.
I believe iMovie can output a QuickTime movie that is still just DV format.
I think I need to encode that to MPEG-2, right? I have looked at
mplayer/mencoder but it looks complex and I don't want to start putting that
together if it's not necessary.
Would VLC help with this, or would it only serve the files after I convert
them with something else? Again, the list of libraries required by VLC is
daunting for me, so I'd like to know this is the right direction before
starting that project.
So far I have ripped a DVD to .vob files and served them through samba. For
general information, I was serving it from an Ultra5 over 100bT and it was
not going well. I would get about 3 secs. of video then maybe a 1/2 sec.
pause. I got my hands on a Sun Blade 150 (550 MHz vs. 270 MHz) and now it
streams beautifully using CinemaSix 1.0b. I did not see any lip sync
problems either. It may be samba overhead. Sounds from the list that http
streaming is the way to go--if I can get VLC to compile (I am in no way a
programmer).
Thanks for the help.
-Tom Stanley