[plug] [OT] VCR to DVD

[Chris Griffin]

Mike, wouldn't this give you video without sound?
I thought s-video was video only.

Chris Griffin

On 10/7/05, Mike Holland <myk.list at westnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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