[TriLUG] Recording Eric Raymond's Talk(s)

[Jeff Jackowski]

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Chris Hedemark wrote:

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>On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 03:14 PM, Merle Watts wrote:
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>> I have a dvd burner if needed to burn to a dvd.  Just send me the 
>> tapes.
>> vhs or mini dv
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>Cool, this is shaping up well.

Yea, I mention recording it and putting it on DVD, and now I don't even 
have to show up for it to happen. Strange.

>If people send MiniDV *copies* to me (please, folks, do keep your 
>originals safe), I can edit it down to a one hour MiniDV tape.  I send 
>that tape to someone like you, Merle, where it can be mastered to DVD.  
>Additionally I export to MPEG or other codec and upload to 
>http://trilug.org (if the server can handle it, and I think it can) so 
>people can watch it via the web in lower bitrate format.

I don't know about other people, but I don't think I can copy a tape 
without borrowing a camcorder.

Also, it came to my attention on a video related board a while back that 
Sony and Panasonic made miniDV tapes use different lubercants, and that 
using both type of tapes (at least Panasonic's are available under various 
brand names) in one camcorder will make sticky globs. Very bad.

Anyone here use both kinds of tapes? I've stuck to the Panasonic brand 
because I can get JVC branded 60 minute tapes cheap, and the 80 minute 
ones are good.

Also, I have 5 Panasonic professional grade 60 minute tapes. I figured 
they might have fewer data errors when used.

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Jeff Jackowski
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