[aklug] VHS conversion - hardware+software recommendations?

[Royce Williams]

Greg, this is FANTASTIC - thanks very much!

-- 
Royce


On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 4:19 PM Greg Schmitz <greg at amipa.org> wrote:

>
> On 6/13/20 3:22 PM, Royce Williams wrote:
>
> Something other than the security sky falling for once. ;)
>
> 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.
>
> 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
>
> FWIW, I have a few NVIDIA GPUs to throw at it and have NVIDIA support
> built into my ffmpeg.
>
> Has anyone solved this problem recently and can share some scars?
>
> Royce
>
> 1. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01H6OQI1W
>
> 2.
>
> https://gordonlesti.com/digitize-a-vhs-tape-with-ffmpeg-and-easycap-on-linux/
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/848713
>
> https://medium.com/@bionazgul/the-adventures-of-converting-vhs-tapes-to-mp4-using-easycap-and-ffmpeg-to-create-a-christmas-f12364bfefe1
>
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> Royce,
>
> Sounds like your major issue is with Analog to Digital
> converter/conversion (audio and video).  Ashley Blewer
> <http://ashleyblewer.com/> <http://ashleyblewer.com/> outlines some of
> the options in this document
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oJvr8zCMK4A97GF9xYOM0uijDqyNStuwjtZ23yMRkGw/edit>
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oJvr8zCMK4A97GF9xYOM0uijDqyNStuwjtZ23yMRkGw/edit>
> 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.
>
> At AMIPA we have been using hardware mostly from AJA Video Systems
> <https://www.aja.com/> <https://www.aja.com/> though for now mostly
> working on Apple machines running obsolete OS X.
>
> 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.
>
> Other useful resources include:
>
> https://amiaopensource.github.io/ffmprovisr/
>
> From Reto Komer:  https://avpres.net/FFmpeg/
>
> Ashley Blewer  http://ashleyblewer.com/
>
> AMIA-L archives (searchable):  https://lsv.uky.edu/archives/amia-l.html
>
>
> I'll take a look later to see what else I might have.
>
> --greg
>
>
> --
>
> Greg Schmitz
> Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association (AMIPA)
> Anchorage, Alaska
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