I believe Hauppauge makes a decent card that works with Fedora. On Oct 14, 2010, at 7:42 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 10/14/2010 12:33 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:29:10 -0400 >> Tod Thomas <fr33zone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> I remember reading some time ago that VHS was a proprietary >>> standard >>> and without special equipment it was difficult to transfer it to >>> other >>> media. I'm pretty sure I heard within the last couple of years >>> that the >>> VHS standard was retired, or its patent ran out, or something. I >>> expected someone would eventually pick up on that and develop an >>> open >>> source process for transferring old VHS content to DVD. Is there >>> something likes this? Am I dreaming? >> >> You need a capture card for own stuff. It may be macrovision >> protected so you can't do it without either other trivial bits >> (which I >> believe are now illegal in the USA) or a tv capture card that >> doesn't get >> confused by it. > > I have a need for this (an old wedding video). I'd be interested to > know > if anyone here knows of a tv capture card that works well with Fedora. > > Andrew. > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
