[jamboparty]

Hi folks,

I just got XBMC over Ubuntu up and running last night and WOW, this is a great setup! "out of the box", it does almost everything that I was looking for, and I'm absolutely thrilled.

One thing that I have a question about is adding the ability to capture video. I don't really need it to have the ability to schedule recordings or anything like that, I want it more for grabbing video from an old VCR (to backup home movies and add them to my gallery).

I've searched through these forums and found a lot of posts that talk about similar setups but I just want to be clear: In order to have this ability, do I need to add another program such as MythTV? This seems to be the popular route but I think it would be overkill for my needs. Is there another option that easily integrates with XBMC that would better suite my plans?

Thanks!

[jmarshall]

Yes, use some other program to handle that. XBMC is not (or will not) be setup to do that sort of thing - the only thing we're working on is acting as a frontend to the various PVR solutions out there.

By the sounds of things you need a digitising app rather than a PVR app - there may be options other than Myth for this (after all, you don't need the "tv" bit - just the "read from the card and dump to a file" bit)

Even something like mplayer/mencoder might be able to accomplish it? No idea

Cheers,
Jonathan

[jamboparty]

Thanks for the quick reply!

I'll continue looking for something else to include into the system in order to accomplish this. If anyone else has a suggestion, I'd love to hear it

[Swifty]

VLC player can take a stream and write it to a file iirc.. so as long as you have a capture device in the PC then it shouldn't be a problem to use that.

[TugboatBill]

Check out Amazon. There are several VHS to USB solutions that are $100 or less.