Landry Breuil wrote:
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Jan-Erik Skata<[email protected]> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Jan Stary <[email protected]> wrote:
I need to transfer some old VHS tapes into (any) digital video format.
On OpenBSD of course. I understand I need
(1) a VCR, obviously, to play those tapes
(2) a TV card that can input what the VCR outputs
(3) a piece of software that can capture the input
Before I start shopping 80's style, does anyone have some general
DO/DONT advice about (2) and (3), or even a complete working solution?
(Excuse my lameness, I never did any video work.)
Thanks for your time
Jan
Think you might want to use Linux instead. Very few, if any, tuners are
supported under OpenBSD, while Linux has reasonable support both for analog
and digital (DVB/ATSC) cards. You probably just need an analog card with
S-VHS/composite in.
All the bt848-based cards works through bktr(4), with composite input.
to watch composite input, use mplayer -tv
device=/dev/bktr0:driver=bsdbt848:input=1 tv://
.. i suppose mencoder would be able to record, though i didn't test.
Landry
As I understand, there is No Audio support for bktr, just video.
I suppose audio could be recorded using another card, but that sounds
hard to make work well.
You can watch a video with mplayer AND listen to a separate audio stream
with something like mplayer -audiofile VHS.mp3 VHS_video.mp4.
Chris Bennett
