[Techtalk] VHS to DVD
Carla Schroder
carla at bratgrrl.com
Wed Jul 18 19:32:20 UTC 2012
On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 07:44:54 PM David Sumbler wrote:
> > The Ion gadget outputs raw video, which should be readable by VLC,
> > OpenShot, and other Linux video and transcoding software. If you can
> > find the details of the file formats these devices output then I can
> > probably be more helpful.>
> >
> >
> > best,
> > Carla
>
> Thanks for your helpful reply. I think I'm missing something fairly
> basic, though.
>
> When I connect either of the gadgets to the computer, then 'lsusb' shows
> a line such as:
> Bus 001 Device 008: ID eb1a:5051 eMPIA Technology, Inc.
>
> I have both OpenShot (which I have just downloaded) and VLC, but I can't
> figure out how to get them to read the stream from the USB port. As I
> said, there is probably some basic step I have omitted here!
>
> David
I wonder if the V4L wiki will help:
http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Video_via_USB
So maybe all you need is V4l, though I haven't figured out the magic VLC
incantation.
This really should be do-able.
Carla
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