On 03/11/2011, at 9:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > I have a DVico Fusion HD DVB-t vid card which has an s-video input. > > I am currently attempting to record a VHS tape ( not copy protected) from my > VCR via the s-video in of the Dvico card and audio via the AUX sound input on > the mobo. > > No luck via the DVico card with Kaffeine, MPlayer etc. > > Both video and sound work fine using TVTime, which unfortunately has no > record function. > > I can either run it from the Menu or via command line > >> tvtime --nowidescreen --norm=PAL > > The video device is /dev/video0 > > I have tried recording it with > > cat /dev/video0 > /home/bill/Videos/test.mpg > > which creates the test.mpg ok, but it appears to not actually capture > anything. > > Googling has pleny of links for Desktop Recording, using VLC to record > streams etc, none of which seem directly applicable as I have only managed to > get both video and sound via TVTime > > This will be a one-time only job and I dont really want to have to pay to > have the tape "professionally" copied. > > Advice/links please.
transcode does it, and does it nicely. On their www there are examples v4l for pal etc http://transcode.org James-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
