[plug] [OT] VCR to DVD

[Mike Holland]

Rob Davies wrote:
> Only variance is that digital video and audio will  
> need to be encoded - authored and burnt to dvd via some form of  
> software. Again depends on platform - Linux very difficult to achieve  
> so the commercial OS's being the choice. 

if you just want to copy a VHS to DVD, without the DVD menus, its
relatively easy. Hook a VCR to your s-video input of a standard TV card,
encode to a dvd-compatible mpeg format with 'mencoder', then run
a couple of simple 'dvdauthor' command to build the VOB files etc,
and burn it.
   The 'mencoder' command needs lots of options, but you can find 
examples on the web and script it.