Richard A. Smith posted:
>I reciently gained access to some ATI All-in-wonder cards and I started
>playing with the Gatos project drivers to do some archiveing of some VHS
>tapes I have.
>
>I haven't had much success getting the gatos stuff to work the way I
>would like. So I'm looking for a new capture card.
>
>
>I will be captureing VHS tapes to be placed on VCD or in the future
>perhaps DVD. I want both fields so I guess that means 640x480 capture
>29.97fps?
>
>Any recomendations on a good card thats well supported by v4l or v4l2?
>
>Some of the capture runs are close to an hour so AV sync is an issue and
>I'd like it to work well with nvrec.
>
>Are there any capture cards that do audio input as well and don't
>require you to use your soundcard?
Forget analog cards. That is the past. While VHS is not a good source for
DVDs, the correct frame size for DVDs is 720x480, not 640x480.
Go firewire. You can get an external analog to DV firewire converter that
will then allow you to transfer the audio and video into your computer as
DV files (2 GB per 9:20). You quality will be better, such as it is with VHS,
and you can convert to VCD and later DVD.
BTW, before going to VCD and/or DVD, the NTSC setup level needs to be removed.
So whatever tool you use, make sure that it can remove NTSC setup, as the
MPEG-1/2 standard does not use it and leaving it in will cause problems.
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