Digitizing VHS Tapes?

[Olafur Arason]

Kino is good for this.

Olafur Arason

On 3/10/06, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a bunch of old VHS tapes I want to digitize so I can burn them to
> CDs.
>
> I am running Ubuntu 5.10. I have a BT878 chipset TV card (A.K.A. AverMedia)
> and a PAL VCR.
>
> Most of them are les than 60 min. long, but I have some longer ones (240
> min.)
>
> I also have a CD-R drive (naturaly).
>
> What would be the best way to do this?
>
> I tried to do it in the past using MPlayer's Mencoder, but I had two major
> problems:
>
> I couldn't get it to encode to OGG/Vorbis (only MP3 worked 'out of the box')
> and I couldn't make the Video and Audio sync.
>
> Can someone recomend a GUI tool?
>
> Maybe point me to a HOWTO ?
>
> Thanks !
>
>
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