[SWLUG] Recording VHS on linux

[Kris Zani]

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.

good luck




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.
>
>   

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