Re: [Sheflug] Video Capture

["Chris J" <cej [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And Lo! The Great Prophet "Douglas G Mckendrick" uttered these words of wisdom:
> Has anyone or can anyone recommend a video capture card and software to use
> under Linux?  I'm wanting to burn all edited tapes to cd/dvd.  Cheers...
> 
> Doug

I have a no-frills unbranded Brooktree 848-based TV card which does the
job quite nicely using xawtv. As for what people actually /recommend/,
that I can't say :) It depends how much you want it to do in the long
term, but I can watch TV and have xawtv write out to mpeg (IIRC -- it's
been a while since I actually used it, but it got heavy use when I was
at Uni many years ago :) ). But as far as I'm concerned, it does the job :)

There was also some software that did teletext capture which was quite
good; I'll have to try and dig it out and get the blighter up and running
again.

Chris...

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