Re: [Nolug] Video capture from VCR to DV using a firewire or USB2 device

On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 10:24 -0500, Kevin Bucknum wrote:
> Not cheap, but the ADVC-100 is on several lists as working.
> http://moore.cx/dan/experiences/canopus_ADVC100.html is one write up
> on using it. For that price or alittle more you could probably get a
> camcorder though.

Thanks for the link. I hadn't seen that.

I've seen the ADVC-100 in my research, but didn't see this link.

And you're right, it is pricier than I can afford.

> On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 03:46:43 -0500, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Anyone know of a way to do such a thing? I've googled my fingers
> > off, but nothing looks really promising.
> >
> > It needs to be an external device because my PC is SFF, and there's
> > no real room for a PCI video capture card.
> >
> > (It's possible using a modern camcorder as an intermediary, but
> > I'd rather connect the VCR to the external device, run start up
> > a linux program, press the VCR's play button, and directly capture
> > the video. But since I don't have such a camcorder, that's not
> > even a work-around solution.)

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