VHS capture to MPEG?

[Travis Roy]

This doesn't answer your question, but it's along the same thread an I
thought it was funny:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/video/a956/

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> I've got a number of VHS tapes I'd like to convert to MPEG2.
>
> I have a Pinnacle USB2 PRO (150e model).  It has svideo, component and
> antenna inputs.  It's got a remote and IR input.  From what I've been
> reading, there is support in Linux for this thing.
>
> I have a VHS to hook up to it also.
>
> It came with some capture software that consumes all resources on a Celeron
> 1GHz with 2 GB RAM.
>
> I have a Pentium 4m (2GHz?) running Ubuntu Heron (8.10?).  It can see the
> 150e.
>
> I don't want to do a MythTV setup just to capture 2-3 tapes.
>
> Any recommendations on software capturing? I know members have opinions :-)
>
>
>
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Travis Roy