Recording analog video (with USB frame grabber device)

[Colin Law]

On 31 October 2013 23:44, Christian Jaeger <chrjae at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> We're trying to record analog video using a device bought from LIDL [1],
> using the instructions from the referenced page made it work without
> problems in the sense that mplayer can show the video, VLC can show video
> and sound, and some other programs also can show video and/or sound.
> (There's quite a horrible 50Hz hum on the audio, though, depending on how
> the cables are laid out. Well, quality.)
>
> [1]
> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/SilverCrest_USB_2.0_Video_Grabber_SVG_2.0_A2
>
> But the big question now is how to actually get the video usefully captured.
> VLC is the only program that I managed to get both video and audio through,

vlc can be used to copy a stream to a file.  It is probably best to
use the command line version cvlc. It is all there in the docs but is
fairly complex.  You will need to spend a few hours studying the docs
and examples.  It will have something like
dst=std{access=file,mux=ps,dst=filename} in it.

Colin