[TriLUG] Video capture and burn (to DVD)

[Roy Vestal]

Well I've been doing a little research. It appears that I want a 
Conexant 2388x chip based card for my PC vs. a bt848/bt878 chip based card.

I'm looking at the KWorld DV/AV 883 card and the AverMedia DVD EZMaker 
PCI card. Both do SVideo in and Audio in. My camera is an old Sony 
CCD-TR-81 (Hi8).

The other thing I'm looking at is replacing my camera with a Sony 
CCD-TR280. This camera supposedly reads my Hi8 tapes and I can convert 
them right there and input. Then I'm recording Digital8 instead of Hi8.

Any recommendations?

Roy Vestal wrote:

> Guess I should have been a little more specific in my hardware. I 
> currently am using a laptop, I don't have a desktop running at this 
> point that I can use. I also have an older Hi8 camera (top of the line 
> when it was built).
>
> I'm not really looking to do more than keep the same quality and be 
> able to transfer it to DVD.
>
> Pat Regan wrote:
>
>> Roy Vestal wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> I want to be able to capture either the S-Video or RCA out of my 
>>> camcorder and burn to DVD. I'm not really wanting to get into "Pro" 
>>> stuff, but I want really good quality.
>>>
>>> The fun part is I need this to work on a laptop if possible. I have 
>>> a dual head video card in my desktop, and I really don't want to 
>>> replace it. Is there an S-Video card or something USB that works 
>>> well under Linux. I was looking at the "Dazzle" brand stuff, but 
>>> I've seen mixed reviews and I haven't been able to find any refs to 
>>> Linux.
>>>
>>> Also, are there any "howtos" on writing video to DVD under linux? 
>>> I've only been using DVD for data storage at this point.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> The Hauppauge PVR-150 is a very nice card.  I just recently set up a
>> MythTV box for my girlfriend using one.  I think this is the one we 
>> ordered:
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00064GI2O/103-2629179-0341447?v=glance&n=172282&n=507846&s=electronics&v=glance 
>>
>>
>> I believe I had to compile the Beta ivtv drivers to make it work, and it
>> has been running like a champ for a month or two.
>>
>> It is a hardware based mpeg2 encoder.  It does a much better job than
>> half dozen different bttv based cards I have used over the years.  When
>> I was setting up the card I was cable to capture test video clips by 
>> doing:
>>
>> cat /dev/video > test.mpg
>>
>> ivtv came with scripts to set channels and bitrate, and I assume it
>> works with most video4linux software.  Once it was working I didn't use
>> it for anything but MythTV.  This weekend I am planning on copying an
>> old VHS tape for my father, I can let you know what I use for that when
>> it is done.
>>
>> Pat
>>  
>>