[Gllug] Video capture cards

[Xander D Harkness]

Dylan wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I'm trying to find out about video capture cards, mainly for copying my old 
>VHS collection on to DVD. Googling around provides loads of baffling 
>information so...
>
>I'm running SuSE8.1 on a P4, with a GeForce4 MX 420.
>
>Does anyone have recommendations as to capture card?
>Does it need to be compatible with the GeForce?
>Are there any accessible web resources that anyone knows of?
>
>Cheers all
>
>Dylan
>
>  
>
I posted on this a while ago and did not respond as I could not get any 
of the obvious methods working.

I have a matrox mystique which is / was a great card; however I could 
not get it recognised as a v4l device which the majority of capture 
software seems to use.

I also bought a hauppage nicam stereo TV card.

It works well with xawtv except that xawtv refuses to record.

zapping.sf.net works well and took me a while to get it to record; 
however it does now. 

I also managed to get the mjpeg tools to record from the TV card; 
however I have various problems with them; the most annoying is that the 
stop randomly during recording...

I have just transferred a full 90 minutes from video to mpeg using 
zapping.  I am then using mplayer (mencoder) to convert this to avi.

I realise that it would be preferable to do it in one step; however I 
have two difficulties. lavrec stops recording randomly and my desktop 
(athlon 600) is not fast enough to encode at the video streaming rate of 
my video player :-)

I now happily continue to rescue my deteriorating VHS collection; 
exciting things like Band Aid and Top of the Pops from the 70's with 
Pan's people.....

Kind regards
Xander

-- 
Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
		-- Bob Dylan



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