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From: Charles 'B. K. <kr...@ac...> - 2001-04-05 15:05:30
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Lukas Knutsson <lu...@ra...> writes: > Not directly related to libdv, but an answer to this would help my > understanding of DV. > A friend of mine with a NTSC Sony PC 100 managed to firewire over > his footage to my PAL PC100, and I could watch it on my PAL camera's > viewfinder. I doubt that a conversion was made, so is it possible > that my camera can play up both DV formats ? I don't know for sure. I'd say it's pretty reasonable that the camera could play both formats. I too doubt that any conversion is made. You could verify it by trying the analog out of your camera with a TV. > Now I am having trouble capturing the footage to my hard drive using > a commercial product, a well established app being 'premiered' at my > computer. That's strange. > Could dvgrab capture it ? (ie capture the NTSC segments in the > middle of my PAL segments) Yes. It should play with libdv too. There was code added a while ago to detect format changes. > Has anybody written or is working on a NTSC <-> PAL converter > utility ? I don't know if there are any free ones. It would be a nice project. I know Canopus have a commercial one. > <lukas/> -- Buck |