Tough question *******

[Puttingood]

Does anybody know of a program that is a pirating program that will enable me to send video files back to my Digital Video Camera. I can create video files off of my TV-VCR- or VideoCamera and put them on the web. Ican change the format of any of them from and to.
But what I want to do is take video files off the web and put them on digital tape through my 1394 firewire and then play them on tv. Any body following me out there ?

[BigMark]

i believe the problem you're going to run into is that the camera has no input capibilities through the video jacks (regardless of which video jacks you use). What may be easier is get a tv output card and hook it up to a VCR.

[Superfluous_Nut]

So lemme see if I'm following you...

You wanna take a video clip (like an Mpeg) and get it onto normal old video tape, right?

If you've got a digital video camera with 1394 IO and RCA video out (for TV viewing) then you could take the clip and send it to your video camera, then play it to your VCR through the TV out.

you may need to alter the codec of the video clip to be fire-wire happy. Not sure what codec you'd need, tho.

Does any of this help?

[Puttingood]

Yes and No----Lets just forget the VCR and TV-----I can send any video into my comp and edit or add music etc. etc. I can then send that edited version back to my Digital Video Camera and play it where ever I want through simple RCA plugs. I can take any VHS and run it through my camera ( that is hooked up to a VCR) into my comp and do the same thing. I can make MPEGs or save them as any other movie files of my choice. I can also take movie files off the internet and change the viewing format. What I cannot do is take a Mpeg off the internet and send it to my camera that I would be using as a VCR in this case. I have heard about progarms that would convert MPEGS etc. into a DV1 or DV2 file that would then go back to my camera for me to do what ever I wanted.
I am hooked up with a 1394 Firewire

Black Hawk Down( example)----got the whole movie on Windows Media Player which will only play on a small PC screen.
I want to pirate that movie to be able to watch it on TV.

[Superfluous_Nut]

Gotcha. Yeah, then you need to recompress it to be DV compatible. Can you get the MPEG file into your editing system? I would think just loading it as a clip and re-rendering with the appropriate codec would get it to work.

If it doesn't load into your editing system, then you need some sort of utility to conver the windows media codec into something more "normal". Do you know what codec was used on the file you're trying to load?

[Puttingood]

--I am reading up on the codec thing and I think the answer is in front of me but I just don't see it. Apparently, since this is called pirating then nobody just gives you a ripper type program that will click you through it. Plus, my digital video with the 1394 quality is just getting going full blast. I like my set-up and there seem to be no limit to it. I can do about anything imaginable with it but I want to steal shit and watch it on a big screen.:)

[Superfluous_Nut]

Where is the break down happening? Trying to load the MPEG into something other than Windows Media Player or when you try to send it to your camera?

[Puttingood]

Sending it out to my camera. It can not be exported as mpeg. It has to be converted to DV before the camera will accept it back.
For instance---
If I took a video of you and then converted it to mpeg and sent it in email----Then I don't know how to convert it back to DV to send it back to the camera(VCR)


Getting stuff in is no problem---getting stuff back out or off the web is the problem.

[Superfluous_Nut]

Okay. What do you use to get stuff to your Camera?

[Puttingood]

I can hook my camera to my PC and open up my UleadVideo progarm. I can then transfer anything that is on the camera to the program and work on it, edit etc. I then have the option to save the video as a mpeg or any other video format to my harddrive.
If I don't change the format then I can send the edited video back out to my camera the same way it came in (DV).

I guess it boils down to this---I can convert DV to MPEG

I can not convert MPEG to DV

[Superfluous_Nut]

email me a small DV file that WILL output to your camera and an mpeg that won't. something small, I just wanna see what the internals of the file are...

[Puttingood]

email me a small DV file that WILL output to your camera

Thats the problem. I can send you video of me once it is converted to mpeg etc. I can convert but in order to get it back to my camera it has to be in DV form. I can not convert mpeg etc. in to DV. I have yet to run across a DV file on the internet.

[Y2Buddy]

What about just using a TV/Input-Output video card. Same as being able to watch TV on the computer, you can also watch computer on your TV, then , at your TV out go to your VCR.


I think a full version of QuickTime from Apple will convert your files.

[AppState]

media cleaner (http://www.discreet.com/products/cleaner/)

Putt: are you looking for something like this?

Imports mpeg and more, and outputs to dv and more. Free demo available

[Puttingood]

I don't know--Nut had me about figured out but I got lost again.

Question---- If I want to watch a MPEG on my tv then the card Y2 speaks of will play the MPEG on my tv ? I can handle it from there.

Flounder---I will study up on that cleaner program.

[Superfluous_Nut]

Here's the thing about playing video on your computer -- it's all in the codec's. A card will play directly to your TV, but it will require a particular codec to do it. It may be MPEG, or it perhaps DV, or maybe even their own unique format.

How far did you get with the whole PAL thing?