For mac, at least, you want what's called a "Dazzle" Direct firewire hookup w/AV ports.
Jay On 4/12/05, David McDowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You want easy and you can afford a Mac Mini, I'd suggest going that > route. It won't process like a dual G5 (being that it is a single G4) > but you shouldn't have any trouble doing most of what you want. As > for a way to get your VHS/Beta into the computer... here's what I did > with VHS just a few months ago... using a dual G5 (during a brief > period of ownership before returning it for other reasons): > > I have a Sony DV... I connected my VCR to the DV and recorded the > video on a tape in the DV, then I used firewire to connect the DV to > the Mac, used iMovie to capture the video, used iDVD to burn the DVD > and it works like a charm, as advertised, easy as pie. I presume your > BETA has red/white/yellow output as well?? If so, I'd use the same > process. I'm not sure what you would put in a Mac for *direct* analog > capture, but with a Mac Mini, I don't think there are any expansion > slots... anyone? Using firewire is my preferred. DV is easiest to > capture, although yes, it is time consuming to capture to DV then > capture to computer, it made my process painless. > > If someone has an ALL Linux solution... that'd be the bomb, but... I'm > skeptical... sorry. > > good luck, > David McD > > > On 4/12/05, Christopher Blackmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Howdy folks, > > > > I'd like to get your opinion on the best way to handle > > the following tasks I'd like to do. > > > > 1) I have both a vhs & beta vcr that I'd like to copy > > tapes over and put them on my computer and probably > > burn them either to VCD or DVD. (Bunch of home movies > > from when I was a kid) > > > > 2) I have a newer DV camcorder that I'd like to be > > able to take home movies off of and put them on my > > computer as mpeg's or burn and/or burn to DVD. > > > > 3) I'd like to be able to legally download songs (like > > through a service such as iTunes or whatever) and burn > > the songs to cd and/or use in my portable mp3 player. > > > > 4) I have a hookup for satellite that I can have go > > through the afore mentioned vcr's or directly to the > > computer. I'd like to be able to view and/or record > > from this hookup (sort of like a PVR). > > > > My questions are.. can this be all done (one at a > > time) with 1 computer running Linux? If not, can it > > be done with a mac-mini running OSX? If it can be > > done under linux, what hardware/software would I need? > > Which is the better way to go? (I've been using > > linux for some time now, but have never done the above > > with it... haven't messed with OSX before, but would > > be willing to try it out if it could do the above). > > > > thanks, > > Christopher. > > > > For computer sales/service & Ebay consignments in the triangle, NC > > check out: http://www.ckbstuff.com > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! > > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- Jason Faulkner ------------------------ OldOs.org Owner/Admin / http://oldos.org / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------ Certified INGOTS Gold Assessor Trainer / http://www.theingots.org ------------------------ OpenOffice.org Marketing Volunteer / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
