<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Greg, this is FANTASTIC - thanks very much!</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">-- </div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Royce</span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 4:19 PM Greg Schmitz <<a href="mailto:greg@amipa.org">greg@amipa.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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A number of years ago, I used a Hauppauge WinPVR
something-or-other card to convert some VHS tapes to digital.
I'm looking to do something similar on modern Linux.
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<div>I picked up a cheap EasyCap USB[1] and have been sifting
through a few howtos[2] for hooking it up to a VCR and using
ffmpeg to capture. But it looks like the driver isn't great,
the max dimensions for raw capture are 320x240, and the
results (when I can even get ffmpeg's complexity to behave)
are spott. Also, honestly, the complexity of ffmpeg drives me
up the wall. :D </div>
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<div>FWIW, I have a few NVIDIA GPUs to throw at it and have
NVIDIA support built into my ffmpeg.
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<div>Has anyone solved this problem recently and can share
some scars?<br>
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<div>1. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01H6OQI1W" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01H6OQI1W</a></div>
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<div><a href="https://gordonlesti.com/digitize-a-vhs-tape-with-ffmpeg-and-easycap-on-linux/" target="_blank">https://gordonlesti.com/digitize-a-vhs-tape-with-ffmpeg-and-easycap-on-linux/</a></div>
<div><a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/848713" target="_blank">https://askubuntu.com/questions/848713</a></div>
<div><a href="https://medium.com/@bionazgul/the-adventures-of-converting-vhs-tapes-to-mp4-using-easycap-and-ffmpeg-to-create-a-christmas-f12364bfefe1" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@bionazgul/the-adventures-of-converting-vhs-tapes-to-mp4-using-easycap-and-ffmpeg-to-create-a-christmas-f12364bfefe1</a><br clear="all">
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<p>Royce,<br>
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<p>Sounds like your major issue is with Analog to Digital
converter/conversion (audio and video). Ashley Blewer
<a href="http://ashleyblewer.com/" target="_blank"><http://ashleyblewer.com/></a> outlines some of the options in
this document
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oJvr8zCMK4A97GF9xYOM0uijDqyNStuwjtZ23yMRkGw/edit" target="_blank"><https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oJvr8zCMK4A97GF9xYOM0uijDqyNStuwjtZ23yMRkGw/edit></a>
She ranks the options she gives using $/$$/$$$. For a $ option
you might try using a video camera to do some of the A/D work. <br>
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<p>At AMIPA we have been using hardware mostly from AJA Video
Systems <a href="https://www.aja.com/" target="_blank"><https://www.aja.com/></a> though for now mostly working
on Apple machines running obsolete OS X. <br>
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<p>There has been some work on using FFmpeg in conjunction with SDKs
made available by Blackmagic Design. If you have access to a
Blackmagic AD device you might find something by searching on
"FFmpeg and Decklink," I think a decklink option can be compiled
into FFmpeg. <br>
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<p>Other useful resources include:<br>
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<p><a href="https://amiaopensource.github.io/ffmprovisr/" target="_blank">https://amiaopensource.github.io/ffmprovisr/</a></p>
<p>From Reto Komer: <a href="https://avpres.net/FFmpeg/" target="_blank">https://avpres.net/FFmpeg/</a></p>
<p>Ashley Blewer <a href="http://ashleyblewer.com/" target="_blank">http://ashleyblewer.com/</a></p>
<p>AMIA-L archives (searchable):
<a href="https://lsv.uky.edu/archives/amia-l.html" target="_blank">https://lsv.uky.edu/archives/amia-l.html</a></p>
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<p>I'll take a look later to see what else I might have. <br>
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