Video and Movie topics

Hello, I'd like to build a home video surveillance system. I'd like to use one or more common DSP CCD/CMOS cameras with RCA output. Then some kind of capture device with motion detect that in it's turn directly ...

Codecs, encoder,decoder, Directshow, DirectX etc. etc. ...(blink blink blink).....My problem is that I really don't have an understanding of what role these and other elements play in the whole process, which makes it more difficult to ask intelligent questions since I'm surely using terms ...

Is it possible to download some videos from video.google.com ? ...

My quest is to play from the UVW 1200 player into the EVO Hi 8 9720 duplicator to create a Hi 8 copy of the BetaSP. Information is scarce on my topic. For those who use these machines regularly it's fairly ...

I've acquired an old Sony Video 8 CCD-F70 CamCorder and am stumped at square one!  How do you get the tape door open !!  Pushing, pulling, eject button fail to open door!!  Does this mean its broken - or just ...

Still trying to get to the bottom of this issue of vertical bands appearing in any rendered video that started in DV format transferred by Firewire. If you capture the same footage by composite or S-video and then by ...

I want to buy a PAL converter that converts PAL signal into NTSC. My budget is $150 I see couples of them on ebay , but don't know whether it's good or not. [link] ...

I recently upgraded from a used Sony CCD-TRV87 to a used DCR-TRV730 (ok, so maybe that's more of a 'half-upgrade' than a full-upgrade!) The TRV730 is advertised with Video8/Hi8 playback.  However, when I ...