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Re: [LUG] Making sure your memories are safe

 

On 2007-04-02T12:24+0100 Neil Williams wrote:
> There are still specialist photography retailers who offer to transfer
> photographs and Super8 film to VCR or DVD. They still have the
> necessary hardware.

In the past I used a company which doesn't seem to exist any more called
digital lifetime.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.digitallifetime.co.uk/

They converted all my family's old camcorder stuff to DVD. Old little
Super8s and other stuff that I couldn't read. They're pricing was
something like 25GBP per DVD or something like that. Can't recall.

Anyway ended up with 3 DVDs of all our home videos. I've since dumped
the vobs to an external hard drive as DVDs (or CDs) are a bad medium to
trust long term. I still want to upload them to my Californian shell if
I have find a decent enough Internet connection to do 10G without
inconveniencing me too much.

I am not going to bother converting them to OGG. I think MPEG is a
pretty OK format. I convert all my Point&Shoot MPEGs to OGG in order to
save space while uploading to http://video.natalian.org/

My big issue with OGG vorbis is that mplayer playback complains my X40
is too slow which is ridiculous in my opinion.

Best wishes,

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