vhs ripping

vmlinuz101 · 10-14-2005, 04:54 AM

Greetings folks,

wasn't sure what forum this should go in...

Does anyone know of an oss package that will let you rip a vhs cassette either to the hard-drive, or to dvd. I have a fairly high spec machine (2.8GHz P4, 1 GB fast RAM, 128 MB Geforce FX card, etc.)

I understand the nvidia card supports using the vcr as input. Does dvd::rip do this?

Kudos in advance

phil.d.g · 10-14-2005, 05:27 AM

I suspect you would need a TV card and TV software, plug the VCR into the TV card rather than an arial, tune your TV software to your VCR then record using the TV software

vmlinuz101 · 10-14-2005, 05:33 AM

Thanks phil.d.g

There's an s-video input into the card (Geforce FX 5200)

Would this do the A-D conversion that the TV-tuner does?

On KDETV it lets me choose port 202 as the input device.

Maybe I am missing the point altogether :-D

phil.d.g · 10-14-2005, 05:39 AM

Are you sure its an input, I have MSI GeForce FX5200 TD128 and it has no inputs, it has a composite output and one of those digital things (DVI ?) aswell as the VGA output, but thats it, no input

vmlinuz101 · 10-14-2005, 05:43 AM

Not sure. I know _very_ little about hardware. I have the input for the monitor
On the other side, theres's a white 28-pin connector and in between there's a round connector, which I thought was s-video (?????????)

phil.d.g · 10-14-2005, 06:25 AM

Sounds the same as mine

Not too sure of the naming conventions but thats an output, and I think its called composite. You can buy an adaptor so that you can plug it into a s-video lead.

The other day, I was using it to drive my TV, so I definately know its an output and you can't plug your VCR into it.

vmlinuz101 · 10-14-2005, 06:38 AM

Thanks.

I reckoned I'd have to buy some kind of device. Also, its an older vcr, so I'll have to do a bit of research...

Thanks again