Canopus ADVC 100 to Firewire-in on DVD Recorder.... ?

[touchdownfsu]

Is it possible to connect a Canopus ADVC 100 to my PC and have it dump a DivX movie to my LiteOn DVD recorder (LVW-5001) through a firewire cable by means of DV conversion? I know you can connect a DV video camera to the firewire port on the LiteOn, but will it accept an output from the ADVC?

Thanks a bunch,
Jason.

[FulciLives]

Is it possible to connect a Canopus ADVC 100 to my PC and have it dump a DivX movie to my LiteOn DVD recorder (LVW-5001) through a firewire cable by means of DV conversion? I know you can connect a DV video camera to the firewire port on the LiteOn, but will it accept an output from the ADVC?

Thanks a bunch,
Jason.

Well I guess you probably could do this but I don't see the point.

Why do I say that?

You will have to convert your DivX AVI to DV AVI

If you are going to do that you might as well just convert it to MPEG-2 DVD spec instead.

The only reason I could imagine why you might want to do it through the Canopus ADVC-100 is if you don't have a DVD burner on your PC.

But considering they are around $99 now ... well ... I just can't see going through DivX AVI to DV AVI then out to a standalone DVD recorder.

Too much work. Too much time. Too much loss in quality. Blah blah blah.

In short BAD IDEA! :P

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[touchdownfsu]

The benefit to doing this is that I won't have to encode the divx into mpeg2. I can just run the divx file through the canopus and it will record to my set-top dvd recorder in real time and I will then have an authored dvd. If I go the encoding route, I will have to encode the divx file and then author and burn the movie. I do have a dvd recorder in my PC. I was just trying to streamline the burn process of a divx file into a dvd.

How much quality would I lose by converting the divx file into a dv avi file.

Thanks for the nfo,
Jason.

[redwudz]

If I get this right, you are playing a DIVX on your computer, then taking the video composite output and running it thru the ADVC-100 and feeding the resulting DV converted video into a settop player that accepts DV input? Hey, give it a try. I forsee a large loss in quality. But saying that, it might work. But, what FulciLives applies. You would have better quality with a software conversion where you have control of the conversion.

[FulciLives]

The benefit to doing this is that I won't have to encode the divx into mpeg2. I can just run the divx file through the canopus and it will record to my set-top dvd recorder in real time and I will then have an authored dvd.

WRONG

As I was TRYING to say the first time you CANNOT output DivX from the computer through the FIREWIRE to the Canopus ADVC-100

To use the Canopus ADVC-100 as an output device from the computer you have to have a DV AVI file.

So if you have to convert from DivX AVI to DV AVI ... well ... you might as well just convert from DivX to MPEG-2 DVD spec.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman