[mythtvnz] OT: recording from VHS

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Jim Cheetham<jim at inode.co.nz> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Hadley Rich<hads at nice.net.nz> wrote:
>> On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 17:20 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
>>> What hardware would be good to get that would help me record from the
>>> player? I only have DVB-S cards at the moment ...
>>
>> A PVR150 is ideal. You can then just plug in the VHS and
>> `cat /dev/video0 > my-vhs.mpg`
>
> It's been fun watching the conversation :-)
>
> But I have to ask again: can anyone identify or preferably recommend
> something that will take RCA and deliver results over USB2 (that runs
> under Linux)? The only devices I've found so far only list Windows
> support, which leads me to suspect that they are doing too much magic
> in software ...

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_WinTV-PVR-USB2

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Plextor_PX-TV402U

For a fuller list http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Video_capture_card