[mythtv-users] VCR capture recommendation

Rob Owens rowens at ptd.net
Fri Dec 19 16:19:38 UTC 2014


On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 02:38:05PM +0100, Alistair Grant wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm looking to transfer some VCR tapes, and possibly capture the
> analogue output of a satellite receiver, both in Australia (PAL-B) and
> the Czech Republic (PAL-DK?).
> 
> What would you suggest as a capture device to work with MythTV?

I've done this as a test using a PVR-150 to record NTSC VHS.  I just ran
the RCA outputs of the VCR to the inputs of the PVR-150.  Then I ran:

cat /dev/video > myfile.mpg

and pressed play on the VCR.

-Rob


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