VCR tape to DVD

[Keith Antoine]

At 01:28 PM 4/03/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Not sure if I should post this to general or not, but here goes...
>Anyone know of a way to copy from VCR tape to DVD using a PC DVD writer?
>
>
>Thanks,
>Tim

Did about 6 tapes recently to cd and dvd. You need a TV card and software 
that will
capture in mpeg2, these is normally 'BIG" files 4-6gig per hour. I have a 
40 gig HD on
raid to capture to, also I bought a Hauppage 250 as this card has a 
hardware mpeg 2
encoder, for better resolution and compression, about 760x576 PAL 2-4 gig 
per 90mins.
Once recorder to HD its fairly simple to tailor to size and burn.

There is one thing though, the Hauppage works with windows only as linux 
does not recognise the card.
I also bought a new MB with Nvidia Gforce chipset, really nice running at 
400mhz on the rambus. But
again linux does not install with SATA raid enabled. The only Distro that 
works with the new onboard
sound and  network cards; Mandrake 9.1!!

I love to work in linux but the drivers are just not there, for what I want 
to install and use.


Keith Antoine