Re: Copying a video cassette to DVD.

On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:07:29 +1000, Doug Laidlaw
<laidlaws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My wife has "volunteered" me to burn a DVD from a VHS cassette for a friend.
My player has plenty of outputs, but how do I input the data to my
computer? My video card has VGA, S-Video and digital flat monitor, but if
I am right, these are all outputs, not inputs.

If you have a Windows machine available to you, there's an
alternative.

Pick up a device called a "Gamebridge 1410", made by Adaptec. The one
I bought cost $40, CDN. It will take cable, standard RCA jacks and
S-Video as input, and it outputs to your USB port. Thanks to the
cable input, it will also act as a TV tuner, 125 channels.

The Intervideo software's easy to install (and is the reason I suggest
using a Windows machine). It records to:

C:\Documents and Settings\(Login Name)\My Documents\My Videos\Recorded
TV

It does a pretty good job. Any recording longer than 2 hours gets
broken automatically into 2-hour chunks. Storage is with the
extension MPEG, and I believe they are MPEG-2 files.maxxing out at
about 4.16 GB.



Personally, I'd like to find similar software that a total newbie (me)
could stuff into a Fedora box, but so far I've had no joy.



Ken Andrews
Windows travelling fool
Linux village idiot
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