[ale] OT vhs to dvd

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Mon Dec 26 15:54:53 EST 2005


I found this set of scripts to run:

http://videotrans.sourceforge.net/

On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 14:38 -0500, Pat Regan wrote:
> Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> > I would recommend one of the PVR-X50 from Hauppauge.  They have pretty 
> > good support in Linux.  Some of the included windows software does 
> > exactly what you are planning, just in case you have a windows 
> > partition.  They cost a little more than a standard frame grabber 
> > because it has a hardware based encoder, but the hw encoder produces, in 
> > my opinion a higher quality picture.   I've used a pvr-250 in my mythtv 
> > box for the last three years, I've been quite happy with it.
> > 
> > http://hauppauge.com/pages/prods_pvrs.html
> > http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Main_Page
> > http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=Go&DEPA=0&type=&description=hauppauge&Category=0&minPrice=&maxPrice=&Go.x=0&Go.y=0
> > 
> > The 150 will be right up you alley.
> > 
> 
> My father wants to do the same thing with some old and irreplaceable VHS
> tapes.  I picked him up a PVR 150.  I have used one of these in a MythTV
> box already, and I have done some very manual video capture with one as
> well.
> 
> I don't think MythTV is aimed at this sort of video capture, and I don't
> think my father would enjoy the command line :p.
> 
> I have yet to find a good way for him to capture video and burn DVDs.
> In the past I used Kino to grab video from a DV camera and build a DVD.
> 
> That was very straight forward and would be perfect for my father.
> Unfortunately, Kino will only capture video over firewire and it doesn't
> seem to be able to load mpegs (I could hack together a quick tk gui to
> capture video if I really needed to).
> 
> I have yet to find anything that would be good for his level of
> expertise.  I looked at Cinelerra, which looks really nice.  It also
> looks much more complex than he needs, and I don't think it will
> actually let him master a DVD.
> 
> Any suggestions on software I might have missed?  I don't think it would
> be terrible if I have to hack up a script to capture the video for
> him...  But I think he needs something that will let him edit the video
> to some degree (cut the crap off the beginning/end, and mark the
> beginning of chapters maybe).
> 
> Pat
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