VHS capture to MPEG?

Tom Buskey tom at buskey.name
Fri Jul 25 13:03:16 EDT 2008


On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Shawn O'Shea <shawn at eth0.net> wrote:

> 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
>> :-)
>>
>> I haven't done much in the way of video capture in awhile (and sadly I
> used to do it mostly in Windows). Your device seems to be a support
> Video4Linux capture device, and there are a number of both command line and
> GUI apps for recording (the Video4Linux wiki lists a number of them:
> http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/TV_Recording ).
>

Exactly what I'm looking for.  Hook up the device, start the VHS player,
start capturing to a file.


> If you had some editing you wanted to do as well, you could use Cinelerra
> to do the capture and then editing as well ( http://cinelerra.org/docs.php).
>

I've looked at a bunch.  I also have apps for Windows and  MacOSX that I can
use.  Transcoding, editing and pushing to DVDs are not my issue.


>
>
> A lot of this stuff is available in Ubuntu, either do a "apt-cache search
> <thing I'm searching for>" or you can search the Ubuntu package repositories
> on the web as well: http://packages.ubuntu.com/
>

Now that I know what I'm looking for.
Thanks!

>
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