I use a connectix "quick clip". Works with my TV(S-video), S-VHS unit  and 
Sony trv-525 digital 8 cam. Mine is parallel version, there is also a usb. I 
use it strictly under Win NT, works great. D8 runs about 200M/minute for 
.avi's, about 45M/minute in MPEG-2. I have Ulead Video Studio and Macromedia 
Director, both work great. You should look at real.com's real producer. Takes 
video down to 2.5M/minute VS 15M/minute of MPEG-1. IBM HotMedia(free) can do 
things with .avi files for web animations and sync audio/video. Go grab a 
trial version of MacroMedia director and you can work with video to CD for 30 
days. Big learning curve.

If you decide to spend $$ you should take a serious look at firewire 
(IEEE1394) products
http://www.cwol.com/firewire/firewire_products.htm

Search on Iomega Buz. If you think it might work with your card I will give 
you the unit plus cord minus the card(it fried) for shipping. It has standard 
RCA video/audio and s-video in/out-puts. The card end of the cord is 15 pin 
with mono/stereo with jump jack for external audio track in. You probably 
already have the RCA and s-video patch cords you would need.

On Monday 20 August 2001 22:37, Keith Antoine wrote:
> I would like to ask a rather openended question re recording old vhs tapes
> to harddrive.
>
> I have some old vhs tapes, such as the early 80's release of Ray Bradburys
> "Martian Chronicles" with Rock Hudson that has a playtime of about 310
> minutes. Now I have both windows ME installed to do Graphical stuff that
> Linux is poor at, but I thought that I would ask the question here.
>
> #1 Can this be done on linux and if so what do I need, I have a Nvidia card
> by Guillemot (Cougar) with tv in and out.
>
> #2 Has anyone used Windows for this and what did you use?
>
> #3 I understand there is a limittation in mpeg 1 that allows only 1 hrs
> recording, does mpeg 2 fare any better?
>
> I plan to re-record to cdrom either vcd or svcd.

-- 
Ronnie
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