[ale] OT vhs to dvd

[Jeff Hubbs]

I've started down the road to a MythTV-based PVR and I have a Hauppage 
PVR-150 card.  I now see, to my horror, that the only A/V connections it 
has are inputs.  This, as you can imagine, would hamper its usefulness 
as a VCR replacement.  Given that the only box I have here with any kind 
of onboard video output is off-limits to me, what's my best path forward 
- replace the PVR-150 or find and add on a video-out card?

Jeff

James P. Kinney III wrote:

>I found this set of scripts to run:
>
>http://videotrans.sourceforge.net/
>
>On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 14:38 -0500, Pat Regan wrote:
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>
>>Calvin Harrigan wrote:
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>>>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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