On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:12:53 -0400 "Mark Shields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 4/22/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Does anyone know of any hardware and software that can be used to transfer > > VHS > > tapes to DVDs using Gentoo Linux on x86 hardware? > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > Your best bet is to get a video capture card. I'd recommend Hauppauge > cards. Pricewatch has a nice card listed for $40. Portage has a driver > called ivtv, http://www.ivtvdriver.org, for Hauppauge and other video > capture cards. > > You just hook up a normal VCR to the card, record the input, and use > software to transcode the video to mpeg-2 format. With dvdauthor and a few > other tools (as listed on the dvdauthor website, dvdauthor.sf.net), you can > burn it to a DVD. > > Hope this helps, > Mark Shields > You have some capture tips, after capture you might want to try any2vob/any2dvd. Developed on gentoo but AFAIK no official ebuilds. Search any2vob on forums.gentoo.org for a very extensive thread on its use. any2vob turns almost any video file into a dvd compliant .vob file. any2dvd leverages any2vob and then creates a DVD iso with menus, chapters at predefined intervals etc. The home page is un-preposessing, but the program works well: http://mightylegends.zapto.org/dvd/any2vob/ Go up a dir and there is some documentation and the author's own ebuilds which you can add to your overlay. http://mightylegends.zapto.org/dvd/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
