[ale] OT vhs to dvd

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 21:25 -0500, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> 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?

Get a video card with S-video output. They are rather common now and
affordable. 
> 
> 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:
> >  
> >
> >>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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