(repost)Re: [Wylug-help] Creating DVDs - was DVD Compression

[Gary Stainburn]

On Thursday 18 November 2004 2:08 pm, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > A few years back, my brother-in-law had some old family cine-film
> > professionally copied to VHS.  I now want to copy it to DVD, and if
> > possible split it into sections and create a menu.
> >
> > Question is, what do I need to
> > 1) connect my PC to the VHS player,
> > 2) capture the video,
> > 3) edit and split into sections (chapters?)
> > 4) create menu
> > 5)create DVD
> >
> > If possible, I'd like to do this using my laptop as my desktop and
> > video are at oposite ends of the room.  This would mean using a USB
> > video capture device.  Has anyone had any experience of thesem
> > especially under Linux.
>
> On the off chance you can cope with firewire, the canopus advc 100 is
> the dogs for dealing with 2.  Works just grand under linux (I've only
> used it with kino, but it just uses the video1394 module).
>
> jh

A very nice piece of kit, but not cheap.  Can anyone suggest something a
bit cheaper.

Also, something to allow me to watch Sky my sky box from my PC'd be nice
if possible (I've got headphones for the PC but not the TV and I keep
waking Pat up)

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Gary Stainburn

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