[mythtv-users] Myth TV to Copy VHS Tapes to Hard Drive?

[James Oltman]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> Completely agree that MythTV is wrong for it.  Even cat or dd (with a
> nice hardware encoder, like the ivtv cards or HD-PVR) are better than
> MythTV for it.
>
>
> deletia

> Mike
>

I was trying to do something similar a few months back with a VHS tape and I
used VLC to capture the VCR playback, as I wanted to see what was playing
and when to stop.  When I did this, the video captured fine, however, I
wasn't able to trim the video using any video editing software.  When I
began to play the file in the editing software (forgive me, I can't remember
the name off the top of my head.  It was available in Windows and Linux and
was Open Source), it only played the first 6 or 7 seconds of the clip (the
blue background from the VCR) and then stopped.  I couldn't skip ahead or
anything.  Would 'cat' or 'dd' fix this issue?  Would I also be able to
watch what I'm recording at the same time, so I know to end the playback?  I
hope these questions are in line with what the OP had in mind.  Thanks!

Jim
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