[Gllug] VCR to computer transfer

[Russell Mackenzie]

What other hardware are you using for that, specifically hard drive?

-russ.

On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 22:49, Richard Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, 23 May 2002, Steve Cobrin wrote:
> 
> > Hi, perhaps slightly off topic but, thought somebody here might be able to
> > help :-)
> >
> > I have some PAL format video's [which were copied from some original 8mm
> > movie stock] which I need to edit, and transfer onto computer and then burnt
> > onto CD. I only need to copy the video track, there's no audio to worry about.
> >
> > 1) Is it possible to burn CD's which will play on a DVD player in the US?
> 
> Yes.  Burn them as VCD (MPEG1, high capacity) or SVCD (MPEG2, higher
> quality/resolution, somewhat lower capacity)
> 
> > 2) What's the best way to copy from VCR to computer?
> 
> I'd do it in two passes.  Record it to disk first in an uncompressed format,
> then transcode it to whichever format you want.  This is from my experience
> of trying to make a 'soft TiVo' - which needs real-time, compress
> straight-to-disk recording, and is pretty hard to do...
> 
> > This is not going to be a frequent event, I really only have these two videos
> > to copy.
> >
> > Is there any difference between a USB based capture card and a PCI based
> > card? USB would be siginificantly more convenient for me, but I don't want to
> > lose too much picture quality.
> 
> I'd want to *see* proof that a USB-based system would work well with Linux.
> I know a PCI-based one can - I have one :-)
> 
> > any suggestions?
> 
> A Hauppauge WinTV[*] Go should do a decent job - it's internal, but it's cheap.
> You can get one online for around £40 including shipping...
> 
> Plus, you've got a TV card after you've finished with the videos...
> 
> > 	-- Steve
> 
> Cheers
> Richard
> [*]  Yes, I know, but they should work great under Linux.
> 
> 
> 
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