Charlie Gibbs wrote: > I have a number of VHS tapes which I'd like to digitize, and I'm > trying to figure out where to start, hardware- and software-wise. > I'm running Debian Buster (10.5), kernel 4.19.0-10-amd64. I found a > pcHDTV HD-5500, which I believe is basically a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 > tweaked for Linux, and dropped it into my box, where it is found by > lspci and shows up as /dev/video0. The card has an extender cable > which leads to a bracket with RCA connectors for audio and composite > video, as well as an S-Video connector. (For now, at least, I'm not > interested in the TV tuner on the card.) > > Presumably, with the proper software and configuration settings, > I should be able to plug a VCR into the RCA connectors and have > video come up on the computer's screen, and hopefully save it to > disk in some sort of standard format. > > What's a good starting point to find information on how to do this?
The subsystem you are looking for is V4L2, Video For Linux 2. Showing up as /dev/video0 is an extremely positive sign. https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/V4L_capturing is what you want to read. -dsr-
