VHS->DVD

[Andrew Haley]

On 10/14/2010 12:33 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:29:10 -0400
> Tod Thomas <fr33zone at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>   I remember reading some time ago that VHS was a proprietary standard 
>> and without special equipment it was difficult to transfer it to other 
>> media.  I'm pretty sure I heard within the last couple of years that the 
>> VHS standard was retired, or its patent ran out, or something.  I 
>> expected someone would eventually pick up on that and develop an open 
>> source process for transferring old VHS content to DVD.  Is there 
>> something likes this?  Am I dreaming?
> 
> You need a capture card for own stuff. It may be macrovision
> protected so you can't do it without either other trivial bits (which I
> believe are now illegal in the USA) or a tv capture card that doesn't get
> confused by it.

I have a need for this (an old wedding video).  I'd be interested to know
if anyone here knows of a tv capture card that works well with Fedora.

Andrew.