[SWLUG] Recording VHS on linux

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Kris Zani wrote:
> Lyn David Thomas wrote:
>> Matthew Moore wrote:
>>   
>>> All,
>>>
>>> I was wondering if anyone has any experience of recording VHS on linux 
>>> using a capture card or similar.  Any good software out there?  And 
>>> hardware recommendations?
>>>
>>> I'd like to copy all my old VHS to DVD/Hard drive before the VCR gives 
>>> out, so we don't have to buy another VCR when it goes pop.
>>
>> I would be interested in this, my video player has died but they are 
>> still cheep, the alternative is to get for about 150 quid one of those 
>> video to dvd recorders... rather do it via my linux box if I could.
> I've done it before.
>
> Two methods worked ok
>
> Best method was connecting a Sony video camera to a firewire card and 
> plugging the vhs player
> into the camera.  This camera was one of the models with small tapes 
> and could record back
> from the video.  This method took quite a while but the final quality 
> was pretty good.
>
> Other method was with a cheap Haupage wintv pci card.
>
> both times i used Kino to record the video and then (sorry) i 
> transferred it to a windows box
> and cut it up in movie maker.
>
> Kino generally outputs pretty uncompressed avi's so they are huge
> but i have since had some pretty good success with VLC for video 
> conversion.
I've been doing a little video editing (slightly older blog link with 
range of video editing apps) 
<http://alicious.com/2008/amateur-video-editing-on-linux-ubuntu/> 
recently and found that KDEnlive <http://kdenlive.org/features> is 
looking pretty good since 0.7.1 (which I compiled under Kubuntu but 
which apparently is in the repos for Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty). It used to be 
pretty buggy and crash prone for me but the latest upgrade seems a lot 
more stable.

This topic would be a good lightning talk IMO - recording VHS to your 
computer.

FWIW.

pbhj
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