Does anyone know of any hardware and software that can be used to transfer VHS
tapes to DVDs using Gentoo Linux on x86 hardware?
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Your best bet is to get a video capture card. I'd recommend Hauppauge cards. Pricewatch has a nice card listed for $40. Portage has a driver called ivtv, http://www.ivtvdriver.org , for Hauppauge and other video capture cards.
You just hook up a normal VCR to the card, record the input, and use software to transcode the video to mpeg-2 format. With dvdauthor and a few other tools (as listed on the dvdauthor website, dvdauthor.sf.net), you can burn it to a DVD.
Hope this helps,
Mark Shields
