‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Monday, May 17, 2021 11:39 AM, Charlie Gibbs <cgi...@surfnaked.ca> wrote:
> I have a number of VHS tapes which I'd like to digitize, and I'm > trying to figure out where to start, hardware- and software-wise. > I'm running Debian Buster (10.5), kernel 4.19.0-10-amd64. I found a > pcHDTV HD-5500, which I believe is basically a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 > tweaked for Linux, and dropped it into my box, where it is found by > lspci and shows up as /dev/video0. The card has an extender cable > which leads to a bracket with RCA connectors for audio and composite > video, as well as an S-Video connector. (For now, at least, I'm not > interested in the TV tuner on the card.) > > Presumably, with the proper software and configuration settings, > I should be able to plug a VCR into the RCA connectors and have > video come up on the computer's screen, and hopefully save it to > disk in some sort of standard format. > > What's a good starting point to find information on how to do this? Canopus ADVC-300 i've used this device for many years i works flawlessly play the video push a button on the advc-300 get a perfect digital copy
