Youtube video capture advice can be awful!
I just want to share a link to a Youtube video of a guy (most likely very young) that is showing the best way to "digitize" miniDv tapes using Linux, because according to him miniDV tapes are not digital and the only way to get the best quality is to use Linux not Windows OS.
This is the kind of videos feeding wrong informations to people and they come here confused with a lot of questions. This is just one area of the many areas of videos about video. |
There are a lot of ignorant kids (teens, even 20s) running around TikTok, Youtube, Reddit, and others places, spounting off complete BS (not just with video, but everything). Their defense is always shouting "boomer!!!" (even when we're GenX), ignoring that their "facts" are bunk. We live in the age of disinformation and misinformation now, in the 2020s.
This too will pass. But people that believed them will be worse off at a later date. This isn't that different from those who lose everything in Ponzi schemes. They did not vet, no research, and they will lose money/time/property/etc because of it. So gullible watchers are just as culpable. |
That video is probably stemmed from this one that claims batch conversion of DV tapes using Linux when in fact all he is doing is transferring tapes manually one by one just like you would do with WinDV or Sclive, He even used the exact same shape of USB flash drive, Coincidence?
By the way you misspelled capture when you edited the title. |
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Heck, I figured out how to transfer MiniDV tapes myself from a YouTube video. This one to be specific, sure I had to buy 3 cables and make this Firewire to Thunderbolt to Thunderbolt 3 daisy chain of adapters since I didn't have an old PC that supported Firewire, just a modern laptop that supported Thunderbolt 3. But after setting all the cables up, it worked flawlessly with WinDV being able to recognize the camera's feed and was able to capture what the camera plays back. |
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The kid/person in that Youtube video was using a "live boot" version, which is pretty craptastic for any serious task, since it lacks swap. That alone will cause data thrashing and dropped frames. Same reason you should never use the OS drive to capture anything, it's too busy/noisy, data interrupted. The Youtuber doesn't know what he doesn't know. Meanwhile, I operate multiple Linux desktops (Xubuntu, Mint), and multiple Linux servers (CloudLinux, Alma). Just tools for tasks. Video is the wrong task for Linux (exception = ffmpeg). Quote:
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This popped up on my Chromecast a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3ovUB-OavE&t=2062s
It's 40 minutes of rambling incoherent BS about the "evil corporations" somehow magically making DVDs "rot". It's anti-science blah-blah mumbo-jumbo. Zero data to back up the wild claims. This is what happens when the person has no technical understanding, and just "shoots from the hip" with whatever headcanon nonsense and conspiracy he can ramble off. Most of the commenters are equally ignorant. Stupid goes beyond politics. :rolleyes: |
It's typical with these movie collectors, They turn their hobby into politics to stay busy, and they brag about how much they know including names that most people don't know or care about. We've seen it across multiple hobbies, most of what they say is personal opinions detached from reality, It's sort of fantasy.
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What you see now are bad collectors. - Profiteers, people only in those circles for the $$$ (including "influencers" that only do this to bring in ad eyeballs and make $$$) - Hoarders, people that "collect" without ever having time to watch all the tapes/discs/files they buy or trade. Torrents and cheap "box sets" brought them in, not really true fandom for the shows. Streaming mostly killed off the collecting/trading scene by the mid 10s, because we just wanted to watch the shows, and now we could. We were not in it to spend time/$$$ to collect a room full of "my precious!" tapes, discs, etc. Collecting the shows on tapes/discs was more due to need at the time, since it was the only way to watch. I sometimes participate in /vhs on Reddit, because it's neat to see people learn how we watched TV in the 80s/90s. Some conversion topics, some old-school collectors/fans there. But some of them are nuts, cluttered masses of tapes that fill the room, tapes they'll never watch. I don't that, and never will. Most collectors/fans want to watch the shows, not sit around and bitch-and-moan. That was always an easy tell to see what sort of collector/trader/fan they were. |
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