DV Camcorder to OGG with River Past Audio Capture, DV Camcorder2OGG recording

What is OGG?

Ogg Vorbis (sometimes just called Vorbis) is an open source patent-free audio compression format, developed as a replacement for proprietary digital audio encoding formats, such as MP3, VQF, and AAC. Vorbis files (which have an .ogg extension) compress to a smaller size than MP3 files, which reduces bandwidth and storage requirements. According to many reports, Vorbis provides better sound quality than MP3.

To encode OGG Vorbis audio with River Past software, please have either Torbias' OGG DirectShow Filters or Radlight Ogg Media Filters installed.

Launch River Past Audio Capture

Once River Past Audio Capture is installed properly, launch Audio Capture.

Set Input Settings

Click on the toggle to the left of "Record from". The panel expands. Select "Microsoft DV Camera and VCR". If it is not a choice in the combo box, check your 1394 card installation and cable connection.

Select output format

Use the setting panel on the bottom of the window to control the output format. Click on the toggle to the left of the "Format" label to expand the panel. Select "OGG - OGG Audio" as the "Audio Type".

Note: To convert to OGG files, you must have OGG Vorbis DirectShow filters installed.

You can change the compressor, and depending on the compressor, you can change the sample rate, channel (stereo or mono), bits/sample, and bitrate.

Set Output File

Click on the toggle to the left of "Record to". The panel expands.

Click on the browse button to bring up the File Save dialog. enter the file name.

Record

Click the "Record" button to start recording.