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<small>Kris Zani wrote:<br>
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David Thomas wrote:
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<pre wrap=""><small>Matthew Moore wrote:
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<pre wrap=""><small>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.
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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.
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<big><tt><small><small> I've done it before.<br>
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Two methods worked ok</small><br>
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Best method was connecting a Sony video camera to a firewire card and
plugging the vhs player<br>
into the camera. This camera was one of the models with small tapes
and could record back<br>
from the video. This method took quite a while but the final quality
was pretty good.<br>
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Other method was with a cheap Haupage wintv pci card.<br>
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both times i used Kino to record the video and then (sorry) i
transferred it to a windows box<br>
and cut it up in movie maker.<br>
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Kino generally outputs pretty uncompressed avi's so they are huge<br>
but i have since had some pretty good success with VLC for video
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I've been doing a <a
href="http://alicious.com/2008/amateur-video-editing-on-linux-ubuntu/">little
video editing (slightly older blog link with range of video editing
apps)</a> recently and found that <a
href="http://kdenlive.org/features">KDEnlive</a> 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.<br>
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This topic would be a good lightning talk IMO - recording VHS to your
computer.<br>
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FWIW.<br>
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pbhj<br>
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