[mythtv-users] Off Topic: Creating DVD from VHS

[James Oltman]

I know I can do this from within Myth, but I'd like to do multiple VHS
imports simultaneously.  Let me explain my situation:

I have home movies that I'd like to import onto my Ubuntu 10.04 box.  I have
a PVR-350 and PVR-250.  I was using a VLC script I cobbled together:

v4l2-ctl --device=/dev/video0 --set-input=1
vlc pvr:///dev/video0 ---sout-deinterlace-mode=Linear --sout
'#duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=ts,dst="/storage/test/homevid.mpg"},dst=display}'

This will bring up VLC so I can see how the video is doing and also outputs
the file to homevid.mpg.  It's a couple hours long as I had to leave while
it was running.  I want to cut out the bad parts, and make some chapters by
cutting out certain parts of the video and making them their own video.
When I watch the long (10GB) video in VLC, there is no time in the bottom
right.  When I load the video in AVIDEMUX, and press play, it only shows me
~6 seconds of video then stops.  I've read somewhere that the PVR-x50 series
can have issues with time codes?  I believe ProjectX was mentioned.  I've
tried to demux into separate audio/video but all I get is an audio mp2
file.  And this is the point where I get lost.  If anyone can point to some
good guides, that would be wonderful.  I've Googled up a storm, but maybe my
kung fu isn't as good as others.  Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks!

Jim
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