Mencoder -tv norm=PAL:driver=v4l2:width=352:height=576:input=1: fps=25 tv:// -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -vf pp=lb/ha/va/dr,hqdn3d,harddup -srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1500:vrc_maxrate=30 00:vbitrate=2500:keyint=15:acodec=mp2:abitrate=192 :aspect=4/3 -o capture.mpg Mencoder -tv norm=PAL:driver=v4l2:width=352:height=288:input=1: fps=25 tv:// -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -vf pp=lb/ha/va/dr,hqdn3d,harddup -srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=900:vrc_maxrate=150 0:vbitrate=1300:keyint=15:acodec=mp2:abitrate=192: aspect=4/3 -o capture.mpg Open up a console, change into the directory where you want to save your video (you will need a few GB free if you're doing a full tape) and then copy/paste one of the following three commands into that console If your tape is at the right point then you can shut tvtime now. Once you have a picture with sound under tvtime then you are ready to start capturing. MJPEG avis can be loaded into both Cinelerra and DeVeDe. Also, if your computer isn't fast enough to be encoding direct to DVD res MPEG2 under mencoder then you'd be better off capturing your footage under xdtv to a MJPEG format avi file. I'm using mencoder here as I haven't yet worked out the exact settings to capture directly to a DVD-compliant MPEG2-PS file using xdtv, which would be a much nicer way of doing things for GUI fans. If there is no sound then you will need to open your mixer program (like alsamixer) and turn up the mic input levels.įrom here on I'll be talking about using tvtime but if you have xdtv ( xawdecode) installed you can use that instead to preview your analogue video input. If you are trying to get a picture through an aerial cable then you will probably have to scan through the channels but this isn't normally neccessary with composite and s-video. Another thing about this card is that I couldn't get it to find my VCR signal through the aerial connector and so I had to use a SCART to composite cable.Īfter plugging your VCR into your PC (including running an auxiliary cable from your VCRs sound outputs to your PCs mic in) insert a VHS tape, push play and start tvtime to check you are getting a picture and sound. The picture I get with this card is quite grainy and I hear that the saa713x chipset capture cards are supposed to be much better- see the v4l2 wiki link above for card recommendations and compatibility. I have an Avermedia TV Capture 98 PCI capture card which is based on the bt878 chipset. s-video gives the best quality of the three so use that if you can. Most TV capture cards have three types of video input: s-video, composite (the yellow one) and TV aerial. The first step, of course, is to connect your VCR to your PC. Under linux you could then just use dvgrab to capture from one of these but I'm not covering that method here. If you plan to do a lot of analogue video capture then it may well be worth the extra cost. This supposedly gives much better picture quality than most of the PCI capture cards but these adapters are still quite expensive at the time of writing. The best way to capture analogue video under any operating system is with a firewire analogue video adapter such as Canopus ADVC 110. You may also need a SCART to COMPOSITE cable and a stereo RCA to 3.5mm jack audio cable The programs tvtime, varsha, k3b and mencoder (which is part of mplayer) A computer with a fast CPU (2Ghz+ if you want to encode straight to MPEG2 in software with no dropped frames) running Linux with at least 10GB free drive space.īasic knowledge of Linux (how to install programs, use the console etc.)Ī video capture card supported by Linux (see )
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