Need Help with Video Streaming and MPG encoding on Server.

[Mark42]

I am capturing all my video tapes to a server for permanent backup and to play through a Media Player on the HD TV.

As you might know from other posts, I have built a server running Windows Home Server V1, Power Pack 3. The whole point of having the server is to preserve all the family photos and video, and be able to stream them back through a commercial add on like WD TV LIve. I do not care to, and will not copy/save commercial video. So Commercial video with encoding does not come into play with my issues.

I need help with the following issues:

1) Capture video from Hi8 tape using AVI format. So far 14 tapes (about 45 minutes each) have been copied to the TB drive. Switched to MP2 format, and it saves about 3/4 the original size, and I am afraid this format will look like crap on a big screen. WHAT IS THE BETTER COMPRESSION?

2) Why do so many owners of home servers (home built or purchased) install Windows Media Player 2011 on their server (especially seeing as it specifically will not install without hacks?) It must have something to do with the codec, or something related to basic video processing. HELP! (I just don't understand the reason and functions!!!)

So that is it. I want to save my DV video in the best quality available. The DV tapes are getting old (from 1998) and will will fail in the near future. (one of 14 tapes will no longer play.)

I am willing to accept a small margin of loss due to video compression.

What do you suggest?

 

[dolluper]

Re: Need Help with Video Streaming and MPG encoding on Server.

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[j_martin]

Re: Need Help with Video Streaming and MPG encoding on Server.

At 65 bucks a terabyte for disk, why the concern for compression?

 

[Mark42]

Re: Need Help with Video Streaming and MPG encoding on Server.

At 65 bucks a terabyte for disk, why the concern for compression?

Because the drives need to be installed in pairs (for mirror image server processing), so real cost is $130/terabyte. And the videos are eat ing up the drives fast.

 

[jlinder]

Re: Need Help with Video Streaming and MPG encoding on Server.

At 65 bucks a terabyte for disk, why the concern for compression?

Uncompressed HD (1920x1080i) data rate is about 1.5Gb/s. That's a little over 11 GB/minute, or 675 GB/hour. 1TB gets you around 90 min total.

And there is no way your system could handle the data rate, let alone the disk drives.

Compression can take this down as low as 6-8Mb/s with full resolution. That's about a 200:1 ratio! That is what your cable company does. (Of course, they spend a lot for high quality compression boxes)

 

[Mark42]

Re: Need Help with Video Streaming and MPG encoding on Server.

So any recommendations for very basic HDMI video editing (***.mov files)? The software just needs to join multiple clips, a simple fade transition and a opening banner so I can bullet list the highlights of the video. Don't need to make them DVD formats, or anything special. Just plain old MPG format will work for now. The Nikon records 1080p at 30 fps. That is what I need a simple editor to handle.

Doesn't have to be free, I will purchase a good quality basic editor.

 

[dolluper]

Re: Need Help with Video Streaming and MPG encoding on Server.

Why the link I gave has numerous free ones check them out get actually what you need or want