[linux-help] Re: archiving VHS on DVD

["gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman)" <glandix@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 18 August 2004 6:36 pm, David Carmichael wrote:
> I can tell you from experience... try to find the original source on
> DVD....
>
> Many TV shows had been or soon will be released on DVD...

well, as i stated, they're old home movies, so i severely doubt they'll be 
released on dvd anytime soon, as these are the only copies :P


> Other wise if you really want to do it on your hardware....

i really don't have a choice ... it's not worth it to me to go out and 
purchase equipment just to copy old home movies (that are already poor enuf 
quality, since i believe most of these are dupes of the original)


> [1] Turn off all factions that would access harddrive such as virus
> protection, screen savers and any thing else.... [you might even want to
> unlit from local network!!]
> [2] Turn off all TSR's that might load not related to your capture card..
> [3] If you have memory utility set as much as you can for disk cache.
> [4] Once you start the record program set the on screen image to the
> smallest window that you can. [the larger it is the more memory is used]

yeah, i know all of this ... i've already got my linux side stripped down 
pretty much, as it is my HTPC and i wanted the best performance possible out 
of my dvd/movie player ... my system is running slack with blackbox as the 
window manager ... no framebuffer bootup ... and only a few services (mysql, 
mythbackend) which can be stopped without any problem ... my question is more 
relating to the actual software and settings ... what res, format, etc, 
etc ...

-g-
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