On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Jan-Erik Skata<jesk...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> wrote: > >> I need to transfer some old VHS tapes into (any) digital video format. >> On OpenBSD of course. I understand I need >> >> (1) a VCR, obviously, to play those tapes >> (2) a TV card that can input what the VCR outputs >> (3) a piece of software that can capture the input >> >> Before I start shopping 80's style, does anyone have some general >> DO/DONT advice about (2) and (3), or even a complete working solution? >> >> (Excuse my lameness, I never did any video work.) >> >> Thanks for your time >> >> Jan >> >> > Think you might want to use Linux instead. Very few, if any, tuners are > supported under OpenBSD, while Linux has reasonable support both for analog > and digital (DVB/ATSC) cards. You probably just need an analog card with > S-VHS/composite in.
All the bt848-based cards works through bktr(4), with composite input. to watch composite input, use mplayer -tv device=/dev/bktr0:driver=bsdbt848:input=1 tv:// .. i suppose mencoder would be able to record, though i didn't test. Landry
