Linux Real Time MPEG Compression?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday January 16, 2003 @09:20AM from the squashing-video-chunks-while-u-wait dept.

aszoth asks: "I working on a project that is going to require approximately 4 hours of video recording per day for about two months. We are currently using DVM tapes, however the extraction and compression time has left us with a large library of tapes un-converted. We are considering other methods, in particular real time MPEG 2 or MPEG 4 Compression. We also would like to be able to slow down our frame rate from the 29.7 fps to something along the lines of 5-15 fps. I am wondering if any one has any suggestions on possible ways to do such compression (or get similar results) with a Linux box. Thank you for any help you can give."

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Re:Get a Mac by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-16 20:38 · Score: -1, Troll

I'm the poster of the parent, I forgot to mention that with my friend's Mac (800Mhz I think?) he can do close to real-time mpeg2 compresison -- something like 65min to compress 60min of video @ 720x480, stereo, and 24.97fps (approx DVD rate). So at you're requested rate, I'd bet you could easily get real-time compression if you wanted to.