[ale] OT vhs to dvd

[Jeff Hubbs]

Are there any stay-away-froms that I should be aware of?

James P. Kinney III wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 21:25 -0500, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
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>>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?
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>Get a video card with S-video output. They are rather common now and
>affordable. 
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>
>>Jeff
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>>James P. Kinney III wrote:
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>>>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.
>>>>>
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>>>>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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