[LUNI] VHS to DVD conversion

[Trev Peterson]

A SUPPORTED tv tuner card and software to record video should be all you
need.

To get the job done cheap and quick you may want:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815116620
and nvrec (http://nvrec.sourceforge.net/)


If you want to leverage the hardware and software to be a DVR as well
then you may want:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815116628 (it has
dual tuners)
and mythtv (http://www.mythtv.org/)

You can also look into knoppmyth if you want a boot from CD distro to
try it out or quickly get the VHS converted.

HTH

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 10:37 -0600, Branko Kotur wrote:
> I'd recently found some old home movies that are on VHS and while watching 
> them, I realized not only that the tapes won't last forever, but the quality 
> seemed to be degraded from what I remember years ago.  So, I've decided to 
> find a way to convert them to DVD's, preferably using Linux (what else would 
> I use?).  
> 
> I have all the software I need to create the DVD formats once the video is on 
> my computer.  What I don't have is a way to import the video to the computer 
> from VHS.  I'm assuming that I'll need some type of hardware that sits 
> between the VCR and the computer (it'll need to use either coax or RCA 
> cables, I think RCA is the easier way to go).  
> 
> My question is, does anyone know of what hardware I can use?  I have USB 2.0 
> and Firewire, so that shouldn't be an issue.  I think I've used all of my PCI 
> slots, so I'd like to avoid that route, plus I'd like to use it on the laptop 
> if I feel like it.
> 
> Any suggestions?
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Trev Peterson
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