converting VHS to digital

[Keith Antoine]

Matthew Carpenter wrote:

> Then I run a script I wrote called tv2xvid to capture from the VCR.
> (requires mencoder, part of MPlayer)
> Then I either store the video as AVI or convert it to SVCD using
> Transcode.

Hi Mat,

Going back to you mail immediate to this one: Yep am holding up but a 
few things let me down occasionally, like knee joints and shoulders with 
arthyrightus. Otherwise I have been travelling well, apart from memory.

A question: you just might know something about.
I use $Windows as dual boot because I am mostly into multimedia and ther 
is a dearth of useful programs on any sort of linux that would be useful 
to me.

I have a tv capture card, but it does not work in linux due to it being 
a Nebula Digitv B878. There appears to be nothing at all that will 
capture its stream in linux. Iam using Suse 9.3 X64 and in dmesg the 
card is identified correctly the correct module is there (NX6000) but 
all capture progs are as far as I can see analogue. Kaxtv says iits will 
see digital but to no avail as does one of KDE tv progs, it also fails.
Of course if I get there I will want to capture to HD.

I am also into DVD authoring and associated stunts. I have a pioneer A08
and do burn dual layer. There does not seem to be anything for ease of 
authoring and to do dual layer around for linux, got to be a gui prog.
Its no use to me being in command line these days, once I could remember 
the commands now I don't. Its case of use it daily or forget it.

Another is that I have a new dvd player with divx and I get given some 
dvd to play with xvid. The sound is fine but the video is poor, is there 
anything I can use to convert xvid to divx. I know they are supposed to 
be the same, one free the other pro, but they obviously are not.

-- 
Keith Antoine AKA "Skippy" or 'Gandalf the beardless' Online with Dual 
boot Suse Linux 9.3 64bit OS
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