Support for "familiy videos" in dv format, please

[Usopp]

Hi,

I claim that there are many people like me out there which have old "familiy videos" (or whatever) which they captured with a Video8, Hi8 (or Digital8) camcorder. Now at the "digital age" many people have digitalized their old analog videos (for Hi8, Video8 cassets) and/or want to put them on the PC on a hard drive for backup (for Digital8, Hi8, Video8 cassets).

A simple, fast and mostly acceptable way of digitalizing analog videos such as Hi8 or Video8 cassets is to buy a Digital8 camcorder, connect it via Firewire/USB on the PC and capture the analog videos with the right software (which put the digital signal which comes from the camcorder 1:1 in an avi container like the freeware tool WinDV; yes, Digital8 camcorders converts analog signals of f.e. Hi8 cassests to a digital signal and give it via Firewire/USB to the PC).

Videos (on Hi8, Video8, Digital8 cassets), as they are backuped with a Digital8 camcorder on the PC (as described above), have the common format of DV. These videos are in the DV format in an AVI container:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DV

I would like to watch such kind of video on the TV with a media player without the need of converting them. If the Boxee Box can play them directly, then it would be very great.

What do you think about this?

[IAmBill]

I don't see much of a market for this, but I suppose there's no harm in asking. Most of the people whom I know of that backed up their home videos in the past have burned them onto DVDs already because they always intended to watch them on their TV.

[flynn]

I think Boxee tries to support as many formats as possible (that's one of its advantages over other products, isn't it?) so if this is just a request to support a new format, then this makes total sense.

But perhaps there's another request in here re: supporting user-created content or content that doesn't belong in IMDB etc. - AFAIK you're forced to use the "Files" section for that stuff.

[IAmBill]

But perhaps there's another request in here re: supporting user-created content or content that doesn't belong in IMDB etc. - AFAIK you're forced to use the "Files" section for that stuff.

I think content that cannot be properly scraped using any of the movie/tv scrapers gets thrown into a folder of "unidentified videos" (or something similar). This is basically the stem of the very popular request to add your own metadata to videos allowing you to organize your own content on top of what the scrapers give you. I support this as I feel scrapers should be the foundation of organizing a media collection and not the only functional way to do so.

[DGMurdockIII]

I think what the original poster is asking is not as much to be able to scrape the video and get the info he/she is really want to just be able to play the videos in boxee if if they can do that i don't think they care if they get info on the video or not

[IAmBill]

I think what the original poster is asking is not as much to be able to scrape the video and get the info he/she is really want to just be able to play the videos in boxee if if they can do that i don't think they care if they get info on the video or not

Yes, that's correct... my second post was in reference to "another request" that I had quoted from flynn's post. My first post is entirely relevant to the OP's request, though.

[Slimjlp]

I agree with the original poster. DV format is important. I have 10 year of home video in DV format on my NAS. Although I could have made DVD, it is much more usefull to have all my movies, pictures etc...At my Finger tips!

Even if I convert them to divx, I still keep the originals, just in case.

I also agree with the need to find homemade content under the movie tab. Having to search local storage everytime is anoying.

Thanks.