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>Are there any stay-away-froms that I should be aware of?
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>James P. Kinney III wrote:
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>>On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 21:25 -0500, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
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>>>I've started down the road to a MythTV-based PVR and I have a Hauppage
>>>PVR-150 card. I now see, to my horror, that the only A/V connections it
>>>has are inputs. This, as you can imagine, would hamper its usefulness
>>>as a VCR replacement. Given that the only box I have here with any kind
>>>of onboard video output is off-limits to me, what's my best path forward
>>>- replace the PVR-150 or find and add on a video-out card?
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>>Get a video card with S-video output. They are rather common now and
>>affordable.
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>>>Jeff
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>>>James P. Kinney III wrote:
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>>>>I found this set of scripts to run:
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>>>><a rel="nofollow" href="http://videotrans.sourceforge.net/";>http://videotrans.sourceforge.net/</a>
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>>>>On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 14:38 -0500, Pat Regan wrote:
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>>>>>Calvin Harrigan wrote:
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>>>>>>I would recommend one of the PVR-X50 from Hauppauge. They have pretty
>>>>>>good support in Linux. Some of the included windows software does
>>>>>>exactly what you are planning, just in case you have a windows
>>>>>>partition. They cost a little more than a standard frame grabber
>>>>>>because it has a hardware based encoder, but the hw encoder produces, in
>>>>>>my opinion a higher quality picture. I've used a pvr-250 in my mythtv
>>>>>>box for the last three years, I've been quite happy with it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>><a rel="nofollow" href="http://hauppauge.com/pages/prods_pvrs.html";>http://hauppauge.com/pages/prods_pvrs.html</a>
>>>>>><a rel="nofollow" href="http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Main_Page";>http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Main_Page</a>
>>>>>><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=Go&DEPA=0&type=&description=hauppauge&Category=0&minPrice=&maxPrice=&Go.x=0&Go.y=0";>http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=Go&DEPA=0&type=&description=hauppauge&Category=0&minPrice=&maxPrice=&Go.x=0&Go.y=0</a>
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>>>>>>The 150 will be right up you alley.
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>>>>>My father wants to do the same thing with some old and irreplaceable VHS
>>>>>tapes. I picked him up a PVR 150. I have used one of these in a MythTV
>>>>>box already, and I have done some very manual video capture with one as
>>>>>well.
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>>>>>I don't think MythTV is aimed at this sort of video capture, and I don't
>>>>>think my father would enjoy the command line :p.
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>>>>>I have yet to find a good way for him to capture video and burn DVDs.
>>>>>In the past I used Kino to grab video from a DV camera and build a DVD.
>>>>>
>>>>>That was very straight forward and would be perfect for my father.
>>>>>Unfortunately, Kino will only capture video over firewire and it doesn't
>>>>>seem to be able to load mpegs (I could hack together a quick tk gui to
>>>>>capture video if I really needed to).
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>>>>>I have yet to find anything that would be good for his level of
>>>>>expertise. I looked at Cinelerra, which looks really nice. It also
>>>>>looks much more complex than he needs, and I don't think it will
>>>>>actually let him master a DVD.
>>>>>
>>>>>Any suggestions on software I might have missed? I don't think it would
>>>>>be terrible if I have to hack up a script to capture the video for
>>>>>him... But I think he needs something that will let him edit the video
>>>>>to some degree (cut the crap off the beginning/end, and mark the
>>>>>beginning of chapters maybe).
>>>>>
>>>>>Pat
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Anything based on a NVIDIA Chipset should be OK. Try getting a 5200 or
later. I think they are about $40 bucks or so.
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=GO&Range=1&bop=and&Range=1,%201&description=fx5200&Order=price";>http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=GO&Range=1&bop=and&Range=1,%201&description=fx5200&Order=price</a>
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