[mythtv-users] Capturing legacy VHS tapes

Bob spam at homeurl.co.uk
Tue Oct 18 23:14:42 EDT 2005


Manuel Lemos wrote:
> Hello,
> At last I managed to make Plextor ConvertX M402U to work under SuSE 
> Linux 9.3 and MythTV to see the input video.

Conga rats

> I bought this capture device, not to record scheduled shows, but rather 
> to convert legacy VHS tape recordings to DVD. 

I thought the ConvertX devices captured into MPEG4 format? How are you 
planning to transcode recordings into MPEG2 for the DVD?

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tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 34132, rev = J158,
tveeprom: tuner = Philips FM1236 MK3 (idx = 58, type = 4)
tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3416 (type = 14)
(new type Model 401)
model name      : mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP Processor
cpu MHz         : 2277.214
cache size      : 512 KB
(Plenty o' grunt on an ECS k7s5a MB)
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