null Posted March 21, 2006 Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 I have a buddy with a HP Media Center PC (windows XP) and he records some of my VHS tapes and Laserdisc (the 12" things) onto his hard drive, then burns DVDs for me, including chapters, menus, and all that. I have given him a few of my old tapes and laserdiscs (things that are not available on DVD and maybe never will be...). The resulting DVDs look very nice and professional. Does linux have anything similar to this? I guess I need to video capture the source first, then burn it to DVD. I have a couple more laser discs I need to transfer to DVD, maybe a couple of VHS tapes. Also I have alot of VHS-C camcorder tapes of my son growing up that I would like to put on DVDs - with chapters & menus. Any suggestions or comments appreciated. Note - I don't have the inputs on my linux box required to hook up a video source. Guess I need some kind of go-between from my video machine to my computer. Either that, or get one of those video cards that have all the inputs needed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted March 21, 2006 Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 tv card: take one that saves the recording as an mpeg2 file (tip Hauppauge pvr 150) editing software. Avidemux to cut out unwanted bits from the recording DVD creation: qdvdauthor to create menus etcetc on the DVDs DVD burning: K3b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null Posted March 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 (edited) devries - have you played around with all that...? I mean, if I get into it, and maybe have some questions or problems ? Have you actually done this stuff? thanks!! Edited March 21, 2006 by null Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted March 21, 2006 Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 Yes I have. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null Posted March 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 I checked out the hauppage site and looked at the pvr-150. Looks good. They call it the WinTV PVR-150, and list windows under supported systems, and all the included s/w is windows. Be nice if they mentioned linux. I see it has inputs for: cable-TV, S-Video, Comp. video, line-in, and something else... looks like IR. My laserdisc player has an S-Video output. So I connect my laserdisc player to the s-video, and then the left & right audio RCA cables get connected to....my sound card...?? And what about connecting a VCR? I think my VCR just has RCA outputs for audio & video. Sorry, I'm new to this video capture stuff. If I learn this stuff on linux, I may be able to forego using my winbox at home anymore. I hardly ever use it anymore anyway... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 Just use the cable TV input. (it's what I use). If the Laserdisc player can't be connected that way (I've never had a ld player so am not very knowledgeable) use a converter. I wouldn't try putting cables in the soundcard. Better have the complete signal (audio and video) in one cable directly in the tv-card. For example if I want to record from a VCR I would run the coax cable I would normally plug into the TV into the TV card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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