I was trying to digitize some VHS tapes at home. I have one of those
Pinnacle DVC100 USB converters, but none of the Linux software I've
looked at seems to want to record from it (I can see video from it, just
can't record).
So instead I've been dumping tapes down to disk directly with a VHS deck
attached to a DVD Recorder deck (in my case, a Toshiba D-R410KU). It
makes usable disks, but if I'm digitizing a 2 1/2 hour movie, I have to
set it to a 4-hour record time. a 96 minute film I would set to 2 hour
recording. A tape with 2 23-minute episodes I set to one hour.
What I would like to do is dump the video down to my computer, and crop
the files down to just the length of the actual movie, or in the case of
2 episodes, split them out to 2 files. Trying things like Openshot,
which is supposed to do this. But it doesn't show me the image/video,
which it's actually supposed to do (explicitly stated as such on various
help pages). Tried this with a MKV file (extracted with MkaeMKV) and
plain VOB files (made with vobcopy). Some of teh other linux video
tools seem to be all about adding video effects, etc, and all I want to
do is snip out pieces (especially if I wanted to start saving clips from
old '120 Minutes' episodes).
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