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Operating Systems Solaris Video capture and editing on Solaris vs Debian vs Ubuntu Post 302585554 by Marcus Aurelius on Wednesday 28th of December 2011 11:08:37 PM
Old 12-29-2011
Video capture and editing on Solaris vs Debian vs Ubuntu

I am interested in doing some heavy video work. I have a ADVC 110 Video capture device, which I am using to capture VHS video tapes, which I will convert on the server to DVD format and burn to DVD's using DVD production software. I will also take the captured video file and split it up in parts and convert to other formats.
I will have a need to rip DVD video and encoding.

My question is for these tasks what setup do you suggest for the following.

The server that will be doing this work is:

HP Proliant DL-380 G4
Dual CPU's 3.20 ghz / 800 mhz / 1MB L2
5120 MB RAM
6 hard disks on HP Smart Array 6i controller (36.4 GB Ultra320 SCSI HD each)
RAID set to RAID 5 (5 discs) with one spare (6th disk)
USB, 2 Ethernet ports, 1 ILO port, 1 SCSI port

When it comes to the 6 disk raid I am setting up I was planning to use RAID-5 on 5 disks using the 6th disk as a spare. Do you think this will be to slow (due to the parity) since I will be doing so much video editing?
My other choice was RAID 1+0 (RAID 10). This would not allow me to have that extra spare. Which do you think would be best? I have at least 50 - 2 hour VHS tapes to capture and DVD's not included.

As far as the operating system I am still considering the one to use. I am concerned about security, so I am undecided as to how much proprietary software I will install on this machine. Flash etc, make me a little wary.

I have used Ubuntu on my laptop and have been very satisfied, especially with the community support. However I am looking to try something new and not sure what to expect as far as support and available software necessary to perform the above requirements (and others not mentioned).

I am deciding between Debian 6 (squeeze) and Solaris. I am probably going to install Debian on another laptop I have, and was thinking about Solaris for this server.

The video requirements are one of the major functions this server must perform, and I do not know to much about Solaris. What recommendations do you have concerning the video requirements, and how Solaris will work on this server hardware. Thank you.

Last edited by Marcus Aurelius; 12-29-2011 at 12:21 PM..
 

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TRANSCODE_IMPORT(1)						  15th April 2008					       TRANSCODE_IMPORT(1)

NAME
transcode_import - transcode import modules collection SYNOPSIS
transcode -x name [ ,name ] [other options] COPYRIGHT
transcode is Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by Thomas Oestreich, 2003-2004 Tilmann Bitterberg, 2004-2010 Transcode Team IMPORT MODULES
If no module is specified through the -x option, transcode will autodetect them using internal probing code. If just one import module is specified, it is used both for video and audio import; if both modules are specified, the first is used for video import, the second for audio import. To see what import modules are avalaible for your transcode installation, do a $ ls -1 $( tcmodinfo -p )/import*.so A complete transcode installation has the following import modules. alsa [audio] This module reads audio samples from an ALSA device using libalsa. This module accepts the following options: device (string) selects ALSA device to use for capturing audio. bktr [video] This module reads video frames from an capture device using bktr module. This module is designed to work on *BSD. For linux, use the v4l module. This module accepts the following options: tunerdev (string) help: selects tuner device. vsource (string) selects video source (device dependant input). format (string) selects video normalization. asource (string) selects audio source (device dependant input). dvd [video, audio, extra] This module provides access to DVD content using libdvdread, directly from DVD device. (e.g. on-the-fly operation, no intermediate disk storage needed). At run time, this module requires: libdvdread >= 0.9.3 This module accepts the following options: delay (integer) set device access delay (seconds). im [video] This module reads single images from disk using ImageMagick; a stream of correlated images can be automatically read if their filenames contains a common prefix and a serial number. All formats supported by ImageMagick are supported as well. At run time, this module requires: libMagick >= 6.2.4.0 This module accepts the following options: noseq (flag) disable internal auto loading of images with similar names. pv3 [video, audio] This module provides access to Earth Soft PV3 audio/video streams using win32 binary codecs and an internal win32 emulation layer (NO wine needed). At run time, this module requires: PV3 win32 dlls. This module accepts the following options: dllpath (string) set path/filename to load dv.dll from vag [audio] This module decodes VAG-format audio (from PlayStation). This module accepts the following options: blocksize (integer) stereo blocking size. vob [video, audio] This module imports audio/video from VOB files. If you need direct DVD access, use import_dvd module. This module accepts the following options: nodemux (flag) skip demuxing processing stage. This sometimes improves A/V sync. x11 [video] This module captures video frames from X window system using libX11. At run time, this module requires: libcx11-6 >= 1.0.0 This module accepts the following options: skew_limit (integer) maximum frame A/V skew (ms) before correction attempt v4l2 [video, audio] This module allow to capture video frames through a V4L2 (V4L api version 2) device. While audio capturing is possible, this kind of usage is discouraged in favour of OSS or ALSA import modules. This module accepts the following options: overrun_guard (integer) flag (default off). Toggles the buffer overrun guard, that prevents crash when capture buffers are full. resync_margin (integer) threshold audio/video desync (in frames) that triggers resync once reached. crop (string) forces cropping into selected window (format: WIDTHxHEIGHT+LEFTxTOP) resync_interval (integer) checks the resync_margin every given amount of frames. format (integer) forces video frames convertion by using index; use -1 to get a list of supported conversions. format (string) forces output format to given one; use "list" to get a list of supported formats. convert (integer) forces video frames convertion by using index; use -1 to get a list of supported conversions. AUTHORS
Written by Thomas Oestreich <ostreich@theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de>, Tilmann Bitterberg and the Transcode-Team See the AUTHORS file for details. SEE ALSO
transcode(1) , tcmodinfo(1) , transcode_filter(1) , transcode_export(1) transcode_import(1) 14th July 2008 TRANSCODE_IMPORT(1)
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