<p>I would think a "cat /dev/video0 >myvideo.mpg" would work, pressing Ctrl-C to stop it.<br>
And it should not be de-interlaced if your target is a DVD, which is interlaced.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 15, 2010 12:55 PM, "James Oltman" <<a href="mailto:cnlibmyth@gmail.com">cnlibmyth@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> I know I can do this from within Myth, but I'd like to do multiple VHS<br>
> imports simultaneously. Let me explain my situation:<br>> <br>> I have home movies that I'd like to import onto my Ubuntu 10.04 box. I have<br>> a PVR-350 and PVR-250. I was using a VLC script I cobbled together:<br>
> <br>> v4l2-ctl --device=/dev/video0 --set-input=1<br>> vlc pvr:///dev/video0 ---sout-deinterlace-mode=Linear --sout<br>> '#duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=ts,dst="/storage/test/homevid.mpg"},dst=display}'<br>
> <br>> This will bring up VLC so I can see how the video is doing and also outputs<br>> the file to homevid.mpg. It's a couple hours long as I had to leave while<br>> it was running. I want to cut out the bad parts, and make some chapters by<br>
> cutting out certain parts of the video and making them their own video.<br>> When I watch the long (10GB) video in VLC, there is no time in the bottom<br>> right. When I load the video in AVIDEMUX, and press play, it only shows me<br>
> ~6 seconds of video then stops. I've read somewhere that the PVR-x50 series<br>> can have issues with time codes? I believe ProjectX was mentioned. I've<br>> tried to demux into separate audio/video but all I get is an audio mp2<br>
> file. And this is the point where I get lost. If anyone can point to some<br>> good guides, that would be wonderful. I've Googled up a storm, but maybe my<br>> kung fu isn't as good as others. Any help would be very much appreciated.<br>
> Thanks!<br>> <br>> Jim<br></div>