[LUNI] VHS to DVD conversion

[Keith T. Garner]

A little more expensive, but probably will get you a better result is
something like the ADVC line from Canopus.  (It was just the first example I
could find, I haven't used one.)

http://canopus.com/products/ADVC110/index.php  This is made for exactly what
you're doing, and you'll be able to suck the video in via dv, Kino.

A friend of mine purchased a similar device and had good results.

Keith

Trev Peterson wrote:
> 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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