[olug] Recommendations for VHS digitization hardware / software

[Adam Haeder]

Jon loaned me a Hauppague PVR-150 card, and I got it working with this
command:

mencoder -tv
device=/dev/video0:driver=v4l2:input=2:norm=ntsc:adevice=/dev/dsp
/dev/video0 -oac mp3lame -ovc x264 -endpos 00:20:00 -o ~/test.mpg

Input=2 is the composite input on the card. This will record 20 minutes on
that input and then stop. Looks great (as great as VHS looks anyway). Now
the whole world can revel in the glory that was my high school musical
performances.

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 7:52 PM, Adam Haeder <adam at adamhaeder.com> wrote:

> So I've got a few dozen old VHS tapes that I'd like to digitize. At the
> moment, I have a vcr that will play them, and an AverMedia analog capture
> card that _should_ be able to digitize the video. At the moment, it's in my
> son's Windows 10 box, and I can't for the life of me get it to work. It's
> an old card, and I've tried 2 different AverMedia specific windows apps,
> and neither one shows any video. I finally got vlc to connect to it and I
> got audio, but I couldn't figure out how to switch the input to component
> (because that's how the vcr is connected to the card).
>
> So my question is: have any of you done a medium-sized vhs->digital
> conversion yourself? If so, what hardware / software did you use? Or am I
> better off paying for someone to do this? I'm not 100% concerned about the
> quality, but if there are 'fixes' or enhancements that a professional would
> be able to do that I can't, it might be worth my money to go that way.
> (some of the high school basketball games, in particular, are potato
> quality).  If not, I'll put the process together and then make my son do
> the actual work :)
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Adam Haeder
> adam at adamhaeder.com
>
> Check out my latest book: LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell from
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>



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Adam Haeder
adam at adamhaeder.com

Check out my latest book: LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell from
O'Reilly: http://bit.ly/bvQQ0I