[MacDV] Re: Importing from a DVD

[Mark.Florida]

On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 06:07  PM, Neville Thomas wrote:

>
>> If you have an external DVD player, you can connect it via analog 
>> cables or
>> S VIDEO via a DV camera with pass through or a converter such as the 
>> Canopus
>> ADVC-100.
>
> I have an iBook with DVD player and AV port (video_out to VCR); that 
> might work?

No that won't work.

1.  The iBook is not fast enough to play a DVD (it uses software 
decoding) and digitize a DV stream at the same time.

2.  Even if it *was* fast enough, the DVD player app pretty much hogs 
the computer.

If you want to lose a generation to VHS (definitely *NOT* recommended), 
you could play it from the iBook to VHS (or to the analog inputs of a 
DV camera to avoid any *major* generation loss)...  then back into the 
iBook via DV...  but this won't work with commercial DVDs that use 
Macrovision copy protection.

2 cents.

- Mark