I have a number of VHS tapes which I'd like to digitize, and I'm trying to figure out where to start, hardware- and software-wise. I'm running Debian Buster (10.5), kernel 4.19.0-10-amd64. I found a pcHDTV HD-5500, which I believe is basically a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 tweaked for Linux, and dropped it into my box, where it is found by lspci and shows up as /dev/video0. The card has an extender cable which leads to a bracket with RCA connectors for audio and composite video, as well as an S-Video connector. (For now, at least, I'm not interested in the TV tuner on the card.)
Presumably, with the proper software and configuration settings, I should be able to plug a VCR into the RCA connectors and have video come up on the computer's screen, and hopefully save it to disk in some sort of standard format. What's a good starting point to find information on how to do this? -- -- /~\ Charlie Gibbs | They don't understand Microsoft \ / <[email protected]> | has stolen their car and parked X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | a taxi in their driveway. / \ if you read it the right way. | -- Mayayana
