If you have others add them to this thread:

With some of these you will need at least 5M of email space, check you provider to see what yours is.

As the fine print says, use them for trial purposes and buy when your satisfied.

http://come.to/satcp (use mirror 2)

http://come.to/powerkiller

http://dvdripper.videopage.de/

This might save being asked for the sites quite frequently.

-- Ross McL (rmclennan@esc.net.au), January 26, 2000

Answers

Analogue video capture, only limit is your hdd capacity, in theory this program can capture 100 sequentual files of 4G each. In practice I have captured 72 minutes without dropped frames between files and that was a miro capture board limitation not from the software.

http://www.nct.ch/multimedia/avi_io/index.html

-- Ross McL (rmclennan@esc.net.au), January 27, 2000.

Digital 1394 Firewire Capture (Type 2 avi's):

Current 1394 capture software produces a type 1 avi which is not supported by most NLE programs; using the programs below allows dv firewire capture in a form acceptable to Adobe Premiere etc etc:

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Office/7844/dvcapchoice.htm

This is a vey simple capture program with no trimmings - only 24K in size:

http://mcarr.eecs.umich.edu/dvio/

-- Ross McL (rmclennan@esc.net.au), January 27, 2000.

oops!

http://come.to/satcp (use mirror 2) should read "mirror 1"

Sorry Guys!

-- Ross McL (rmclennan@esc.net.au), January 27, 2000.

This site has been posted on this forum as providing a free program for joining mpeg files, it may work for you:

http://extra.newsguy.com/~theprof

-- Ross McL (rmclennan@esc.net.au), January 31, 2000.

Hi Ross, I have tried these sites without success. I will try them later. Darryl

-- Darryl (darryl_1965@yahoo.com), February 06, 2000.