Digitizing VHS Tapes?

[CJ Kelley]

Olafur Arason <olafra at gmail.com> wrote:----CJ's Post----
First off, you'd wanna burn them to DVD's (as they wouldnt fit on cd's). Second off, you should be able to plug ur vhs player into your tv card (if its an internal card) and just play the video and record the video via tv card software to the hard drive.
----End of CJ's Post----

Kino is good for this.

Olafur Arason

On 3/10/06, Amichai Rotman  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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