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

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