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On 4/22/06, mattr@×××××.com <mattr@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Does anyone know of any hardware and software that can be used to transfer |
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> VHS |
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> tapes to DVDs using Gentoo Linux on x86 hardware? |
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> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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Your best bet is to get a video capture card. I'd recommend Hauppauge |
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cards. Pricewatch has a nice card listed for $40. Portage has a driver |
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called ivtv, http://www.ivtvdriver.org, for Hauppauge and other video |
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capture cards. |
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You just hook up a normal VCR to the card, record the input, and use |
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software to transcode the video to mpeg-2 format. With dvdauthor and a few |
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other tools (as listed on the dvdauthor website, dvdauthor.sf.net), you can |
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burn it to a DVD. |
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Hope this helps, |
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Mark Shields |
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