Any developer interested in a "DV" player/viewer plugin?

[A_Brass]

Sorry if this isn't the best location for this post.

I was wondering if any of the Plugin Developers are interested in creating a DV plugin. I'm not a programer, so I have no idea how much time and effort this would take but I would help any way I can.

I'm looking for a "simple" plugin that would allow users to display DV camcorder footage, connected via 1394a, though GBPVR, and pass the transport functions, play/rrw/fw/stop, from the GBPVR interface to the camera. It wouldn't even need a skin (like the stock DVD plugin).

I'm not interested in capturing (although that might be nice), Just playback.

Anyone interested?

[dispatcher]

It would be very, very nice if it would be possible to capture DV footage through a plugin and let the hardware mpeg encoder on my wintv-pvr150 convert it to mpeg2.

I am looking for a solution like this because i want to transfer my old video8 tapes to my computer and use my dv camera for streaming it to my computer through firewire. I guess the best way would be to let the hardware mpeg2 encoder on my wintv board do the job (if that is at all possible).

I don't think my programming skills will be sufficient to achieve something like this, but you can all count on my help if needed.

[sub]

It would be very, very nice if it would be possible to capture DV footage through a plugin and let the hardware mpeg encoder on my wintv-pvr150 convert it to mpeg2.

Unfortunately this wont be possible. The encoder on the PVR150 can only encode video from tuner/composite/svideo. It is not able transcode video that is already on your machine, or comes in using a different mechanism.

[A_Brass]

It would be very, very nice if it would be possible to capture DV footage through a plugin and let the hardware mpeg encoder on my wintv-pvr150 convert it to mpeg2.

I had the same thought but you cant. The PVR series cards are not "general" mpeg encoders they can only process signals that are directly conected via coax/s-video/composit inputs. You can still connect your camcorder to the analogue audio and video inputs on the PVR card. The quality is pretty good. I have read some debat over the benifit of a mpeg hardware encoder vs 2 pass software encode. I cant say I see a huge difference, except for time, but I'm encodeing my home moves at lower bitrate's to maximize the time on a blank DVD.

Keep in mind GBPVR may not be the the best app for camcorder capture. Your better off with WinTV 2000 or other App's.

Sub, do you agree?

[dispatcher]

I tried the capture through s-video, and on the computer i don't see a significant difference between the captured s-video mpeg from the hauppauge and the avi captured through firewire.
Burnt to dvd it looks pretty good on TV.
I still have to try to software decode the avi captured through firewire and see how that looks on TV/DVD compared to the s-video hardware mpeg capture.

Thanks for your input.

[A_Brass]

Thanks for your input.

Good Luck. Now back to the orginal question. Is anyone interested in createing a DV playback plugin?

[A_Brass]

Ok, I'll guess no one is interested. But let me know if anyone changes their mind.

Thanks