Mike, wouldn't this give you video without sound?<br>I thought s-video was video only.<br>
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Chris Griffin<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/7/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike Holland</b> <<a href="mailto:myk.list@westnet.com.au">myk.list@westnet.com.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Rob Davies wrote:<br>> Only variance is that digital video and audio will<br>> need to be encoded - authored and burnt to dvd via some form of<br>> software. Again depends on platform - Linux very difficult to achieve
<br>> so the commercial OS's being the choice.<br><br>if you just want to copy a VHS to DVD, without the DVD menus, its<br>relatively easy. Hook a VCR to your s-video input of a standard TV card,<br>encode to a dvd-compatible mpeg format with 'mencoder', then run
<br>a couple of simple 'dvdauthor' command to build the VOB files etc,<br>and burn it.<br> The 'mencoder' command needs lots of options, but you can find<br>examples on the web and script it.<br><br>_______________________________________________
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