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From: Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to dub VHS to DVD with Gentoo?
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 10:24:22
Message-Id: 20060424221049.091aa96c.nick@rout.co.nz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to dub VHS to DVD with Gentoo? by Mark Shields
1 On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:12:53 -0400
2 "Mark Shields" <laebshade@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > On 4/22/06, mattr@×××××.com <mattr@×××××.com> wrote:
5 > >
6 > > Does anyone know of any hardware and software that can be used to transfer
7 > > VHS
8 > > tapes to DVDs using Gentoo Linux on x86 hardware?
9 > > --
10 > > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
11 > >
12 > >
13 > Your best bet is to get a video capture card. I'd recommend Hauppauge
14 > cards. Pricewatch has a nice card listed for $40. Portage has a driver
15 > called ivtv, http://www.ivtvdriver.org, for Hauppauge and other video
16 > capture cards.
17 >
18 > You just hook up a normal VCR to the card, record the input, and use
19 > software to transcode the video to mpeg-2 format. With dvdauthor and a few
20 > other tools (as listed on the dvdauthor website, dvdauthor.sf.net), you can
21 > burn it to a DVD.
22 >
23 > Hope this helps,
24 > Mark Shields
25 >
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28 You have some capture tips, after capture you might want to try
29 any2vob/any2dvd. Developed on gentoo but AFAIK no official ebuilds.
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31 Search any2vob on forums.gentoo.org for a very extensive thread on its
32 use. any2vob turns almost any video file into a dvd compliant .vob file.
33
34 any2dvd leverages any2vob and then creates a DVD iso with menus,
35 chapters at predefined intervals etc.
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37 The home page is un-preposessing, but the program works well:
38 http://mightylegends.zapto.org/dvd/any2vob/
39
40 Go up a dir and there is some documentation and the author's own
41 ebuilds which you can add to your overlay.
42
43 http://mightylegends.zapto.org/dvd/
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