On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 08:41 -0400, Bryan Tyson wrote:
I do loads of video capturing (have a whole VHS library to convert to digital format)
Are you able to do this in Linux? If so, what is your setup? I have been doing a similar project converting VHS, but I have been using a Hauppauge USB WinTV PVR in Windows. I would love to do this with Linux if I knew how.
Well, my TV card has an AV in, so I hook the VCR up to it that way and the sound of the VCR goes into the line-in on my soundcard (SB Live). Then I just use mencoder to grab the video off and convert it to AVI - burn that onto a normal data dvd. I don't know the mencoder switches for that from memory - I've written a small script to do that. Once I find time to spend at home I'll work on getting the stream from the VCR converted to a DVD compliant mpeg file to burn proper video DVDs. -- Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com