[mythtv-users] VCR capture recommendation

[jedi]

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 would recommend the Hauppauge 1313 (HD-PVR). This device saves
it's output in h264 format and that could be useful and save a separate
highly resource intensive transcoding step.

    It has component inputs so that you could record in HD if that's
available.