I want to save our VHS family videos for the future in DVD format. For this I have a TV card in my Pegasos with Composite in. Is there any program which could save the image of the card to the hard disk? The codec doesn't really matter, the space either (I have a couple of GB's for this goal, and digitizing the video in more parts is no problem either). If it is possible, I want to do it on MOS, then I want to transfer to the files to my Mac and edit the DVD with that.

Tried with linux, but I have Debian Etch with the latest 2.6.18-4 kernel, which has - I was told - buggy v4l drivers, so composite in is black and white only and controlling TV tuner is also not possible. But linux suxx, as we, MOS users already know :).

AmithlonTV+VHI STudio+bt878 card

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[ Edited by Velcro_SP 20.07.2011 - 06:10 ]

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[ Edited by Velcro_SP 20.07.2011 - 06:07 ]

ValiantVision looks good, but it is not released yet. :(

what about visionary, have you tried that? it looks good (but updated long time ago).

@ Velcro_SP

Composite Video PAL is 720 pixels X 576 lines.
Composite Video NTSC is 720 pixels X 480 lines.

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[ Edited by Velcro_SP 20.07.2011 - 06:06 ]

@saddam: Can Visionary save the video stream to the HDD?

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Wow it does look good. It looks like the last update was done at the end of may. I hope it gets released soon. AmithlonTV is nice, but its such a pain to get the channels tunned in here.

@Velcro_SP

That's right, composite video is chrominance and luminance combined in a single analogue signal.

Broadcast quality video under ITU-R.601 is 720x576@50 Hz or 720x480@60 Hz. What you receive is something else. Of the 720 columns, only about 700 are active.

VHS only records about 240 lines, this is the main reason for it looking so bad.

If you digitise the video, you have to remember that the signal will be interlaced. When you join two fields to make a frame, there will be "comb" artefacts where the image has moved unless you have a high quality deinterlacer.