Is it your deepest wish to archive those old VHS cassettes (that you will never watch again anyway) to DVD/HDD and trash them afterward? There is help. Get a video card, i have a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-350, which is fine so far. Unfortunately there is a DMA problem so you have to disable it in the Linux Kernel source (i am serious). This patch is for kernel 2.6.25-gentoo-r8, the ivtv package is kernel-dependent.
You need the ivtv and v4l2 drivers from the kernel. ivtv-ctrl segfaults under root, but works fine as normal user which is sufficient. I had a cable from SCART to S-VHS which did not transmit any sound to the S-VHS input so i transferred the sound via an additional antenna cable from the VCR to the card. The inputs for this were: video 2, audio 0 Now i have a new cable that plugs into the second video jack of the card. The inputs: video 5, audio 1. This one is fine. If you archive the VHS cassett for some computer illiterate moron, you might want to burn it onto a single DVD to make it easier to understand. It is easy to limit the max file size and select the sample rate:
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