[Techtalk] VHS to DVD

[David Sumbler]

On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 16:28 -0400, Anthony de Boer wrote:
> David Sumbler wrote:
> > If I enter 'cat /dev/video0' I get a continuous stream of gibberish,
> > which is what I would expect.  But I can't get VLC to display anything
> > at all.
> 
> That continuous stream might be one of encoded video, if it's anything
> like the capture card I used.
> 
> Type 'cat /dev/video0 > mycapture.mpg', feed some video into the card,
> and then ^C it.  At this point running something like mplayer on the
> file should show you video.
> 
> Usually next I'd run avidemux to chop the static off the front and back
> of the recording and dub into the codec of choice for storage and later
> playback.

I have now tried this.  About 10Mb per second were written to the file.

When I entered 'mplayer mycapture.mpg' I got the following output:

MPlayer SVN-r33713-4.6.1 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote
control.

Playing mycapture.mpg.
Invalid seek to negative position ffffffffffffffff!
libavformat file format detected.
[mp3 @ 0x10b47e0] Header missing
[mp3 @ 0x10b47e0] Header missing
[mp3 @ 0x10b47e0] Header missing
[mp3 @ 0x10b47e0] Header missing
[mp3 @ 0x10b47e0] Header missing
[mp3 @ 0x10a3000] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be
inaccurate
[lavf] stream 0: audio (mp1), -aid 0
Load subtitles in ./
==========================================================================
Forced audio codec: mp3
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3


Eventually I used Ctrl-C to get out of mplayer, and got:

MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: init_audio_codec
ADecoder init failed :(
ADecoder init failed :(
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x50.
Audio: no sound
Video: no video


Exiting... (End of file)


David