Hello!
I try digitizing with cinelerra GG VHS_Videos.
It has worked with the USB-Live2 and the VLC. But I want to do it directly at Cinelerra.
Is there a guide to which settings I have to choose so that I can play the videos from my video recorder directly into the Cinelerra?
With kind regards R. Lehmeier
As far as I know, there is currently no guide on how to do this and GoodGuy has never tried this. Maybe someone else has?
I will ask GG and see what he has to say but finding a VHS player will be difficult to do for testing purposes.
Hi,
Thanks to Goodguy Cinelerra seems to support Hauppauge Win-TV cards and USB devices pretty well. I have not done VHS recordings myself but a couple of years ago I could record Satellite broadcasts into Cinelerra-5.1 with my Hauppauge USB TV adaptor, VHS should be no different. So the answer is theoretically yes but you need a Linux and Cinelerra supported capture device which I believe is currently limited to older Hauppauge products.
As AVLinux just stated, you need a capture card and now I just found a section in the current manual Chapter 10, that talks about the plugin Live Video. I do not understand it enough to be of any help. The manual is at:
https://cinelerra-gg.org/download/CinelerraGG_manual.pdf
Meanwhile, GoodGuy will try hooking up a DVD player to verify how to do this when he has some extra time.
As usual Im talking about things I dont know: Ive seen that ffmpeg contains kmsgrab to import any signal from any external source. Can you make it work in CinGG, just like video4linux and webcam?
If GG considers it possible, I can open a ticket.
Now there is a guide at:
https://cinelerra-gg.org/download/testing/vhs.pdf
Hope it helps.
Andrea: vhs.odt at the same location is the originating material and should fit into the chapter “Capturing and Recording Media + DVD/Bluray Creation” perhaps as the 2nd or 3rd section.