Video capture and dvd burning for linux?

[Derek Atkins]

I know this doesn't answer the question as asked, but if you can
afford it I'd suggest you get a Hauppauge PVR-x50 PCI card and use the
ivtv driver.  These cards have hardware MPEG encoding.  You plug your
VCR into the card and from Linux you just cat /dev/video0 >
my-video.mpg.  From there a simple re-encode "fix" the mpeg stream and
add the DVD VOBU packets will give you a perfect DVD video -- I can
provide you the re-encode script if you want.

There's a USB PVR device but I don't think the ivtv project supports
it.

-derek

Scott Ehrlich <scott at ehrlichtronics.com> writes:

> I have an ADS Tech USB 701 box connected to a 1 Gig P3 with 384 Meg RAM
> with a DVD recorder.   I'm trying to capture composite video from a VHS
> tape.   The setup is VCR > ADS box via RCA plugs > PC via USB 2.0.
>
> Using XP Pro, the included Ulead Videostudio 8 program loses track of the
> capture, as it takes up the full cpu cycles and gets overloaded.
>
> My budget won't allow for a new PC.
>
> What are my possible Linux options for capture via USB, editing captured
> video as needed, and burning to DVD?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott

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