[ale] OT vhs to dvd

[Calvin Harrigan]

Jeff Hubbs wrote:

>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:
>> 
>>
>>    
>>
>>>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
>>>>>_______________________________________________
>>>>>Ale mailing list
>>>>>Ale at ale.org
>>>>>http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>>>>>  
>>>>>
>>>>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>>_______________________________________________
>>>>>Ale mailing list
>>>>>Ale at ale.org
>>>>>http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>_______________________________________________
>>>Ale mailing list
>>>Ale at ale.org
>>>http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>>>   
>>>
>>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>_______________________________________________
>>>Ale mailing list
>>>Ale at ale.org
>>>http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Ale mailing list
>Ale at ale.org
>http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>
>  
>
Anything based on a NVIDIA Chipset should be OK.  Try getting a 5200 or 
later.  I think they are about $40 bucks or so.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=GO&Range=1&bop=and&Range=1,%201&description=fx5200&Order=price