VHS->DVD

[Jason Brown]

I believe Hauppauge makes a decent card that works with Fedora.

On Oct 14, 2010, at 7:42 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:

> 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.
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