VHS capture to MPEG?

[Frank DiPrete]

Tom Buskey 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 :-)
> 
> 

Looks like there will be a pvr-250 card with hardware mpeg encoding on 
board available soon here.

All you'd have to do is load the ivtv driver and firmware for the card, 
hook up the vcr to the input, tune the card to the input, hit play then 
cat /dev/video0 > my_vhs_file.mpg




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