<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Michael T. Dean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">
</div>Completely agree that MythTV is wrong for it. Even cat or dd (with a<br>
nice hardware encoder, like the ivtv cards or HD-PVR) are better than<br>
MythTV for it.<br>
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<br></blockquote><div>deletia <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Mike<br></blockquote></div><br>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!<br>
<br>Jim<br>