[mythtvnz] OT: recording from VHS

[Hadley Rich]

On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 19:22 +1200, Tortise wrote:
> The best recording format may be H264 - at either 576i or possibly even de-interlaced to 576p but maybe no advantage in 576p as the 
> de-interlace would do its stuff on playback in any event.?  (Reason - smaller files)
> I am not sure how we'd do that in H264 though and the kit would need to be up to SD H264.
> Has anyone tried this?
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Criggie" <criggie at criggie.dyndns.org>
> To: "MythTV in NZ" <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
> Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 6:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] OT: recording from VHS
> 
> 
> Jim Cheetham wrote:
> > I'd like to increase the utility value of a stack of VHS cassette
> > tapes I have here, by digitising them so they can be played back by
> > Myth. I still have a working VHS player (with RF and RCA outputs).
> > What hardware would be good to get that would help me record from the
> > player? I only have DVB-S cards at the moment ...
> 
> Video tapes are standard definition, so anything "high def" would be a waste.
> 
> I use an old nicam recorder plugged into the RCA composite input of one of
> my PVR150 (the other one doesn't have these physical sockets)
> 
> However the quality isn't great, and of course you can only watch at 1
> speed :)
> 
> 
> Others have recommended cat /dev/video0 > file.mpg
> but I run up mythfrontend and record closer to the desired position by
> simply pressing R while watching.  Be aware that the tape is running
> anything from 2-5 seconds ahead of what you see and hear on screen though.
> 
> Then once the recording is done, you can edit the cutlist and transcode
> out adverts or any lead in/out.

Try to stick with the quoting style, it's hard to follow the
conversation when it jumps all over the place.

Any framegrabber card/device can do H264 if the host hardware is up to
it.

hads

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