Hi all,

I wish to back up my DV tapes to DVD. No editing, just a straight
copy. However, I would like chapter points where I have stopped the
camera (which is easily detectable by the change in timecode) and I
would also like the date/time available as a subtitle.

Can anyone suggest a simple way of achieving this without too much
manual intervention?

I currently use WinDV to capture, which splits up the files, and create
the mpegs in TMPEGENC (using a perl script to generate the batch file).
I have seen freeware to extract the date/time data to a file, but I
don't know which authoring packages can accept subtitles, and in which
format. Can anyone recommend authoring software that will do this?

Thanks,

Jojax14

On 16 Feb 2005 06:59:27 -0800, jojax14@yahoo.com.au wrote:

How are you going to fit a 60 or 63 minute mini-DV tape which holds
over 13 Gb of data (assumng it is fully recorded) onto a 4.38 Gb DVD-R
disk? DVD simply isn't a suitable backup medium for mini-DV tapes,
despite how many times I see people asking about this in the
newsgroup.

On a sunny day (Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:55:15 -0500) it happened Jim Gunn
<Jim_Gunn@Yahoo.com> wrote in <aiba11letjsomrau9ftllahborek91ncf1@4ax.com>:

You have to agree it helps a LITTLE ;-)
In the case of DVD 'giga byte' is metric (and not a multiple of 1024).

On 2/17/2005, Jim Gunn managed to type:
Let's see: 13/4.38 = 2.968

OK! I could try dividing the file into 2.968 segments and putting each
one on a *separate* DVD, labeled, oh, let's say MyMovie 1, MyMovie 2,
MyMovie 0.968...

Or if I use Jan's numbers, I only need 2.77 DVDs. Cool!

Gino

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"Jim Gunn" <Jim_Gunn@Yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:aiba11letjsomrau9ftllahborek91ncf1@4ax.com...
where does he say hes going to do one tape to one dvd ?

On a sunny day (Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:38:07 -0800) it happened Gene E. Bloch
<spamfree@nobody.invalid> wrote in <mn.93aa7d5211641e2f.1980@nobody.invalid>:

When we still had only CD-R I saved my digital satellite receptions in mpeg2
that way.
In Linux this is extremely easy:
If your DV file is named myfile.dv:

dd if=myfile.dv of=MyMovie1.dv bs=10000000 count=470
dd if=myfile.dv of=MyMovie2.dv bs=10000000 count=470 skip=470
dd if=myfile.dv of=MyMovie3.dv bs=10000000 count=470 skip=940

#Burn to DVD, insert empty disk
growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=MyMovie1.dv
#remove disk and put in empty one
growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=MyMovie2.dv
#remove disk and put in empty one
growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=MyMovie3.dv


So, apart from the 'comments' that involves typing 6 lines, put these
in a script and you have my old CD-R burn script. (but that does verify too).

You can binary concatenate the things together to get the old file back:
cat /dev/ dvd allofit.dv
# next disk
cat /dev/dvd >> allofit.dv
# next disk
cat /dev/dvd >> a...... etc.

As the DVD+R only costs 80 cents or less these days, this will set you
back les then 3 $.
In ten years, when the fungus has possibly eaten the layer in your tapes,
if you are in a warm moist climate, you can (if DRM has not f*cked up the PCs)
just get it all back within limit of error correction.

On 2/19/2005, Jan Panteltje managed to type:
All this talk about dd and cat makes me nostalgic...

I guess I could boot the Knoppix CD and do the above, but these days
since I retired and got lazy :-) I stick with Windows. However, I think
most reasonable Windows DVD writers will accomplish the above in some
manner through the GUI. I hope...

But so far I just keep my few DVD tapes as their own backup, so for me
it's moot, at least until Global Degaussing begins to accelerate.

Gino

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