My long-term project is to copy some aging VHS tapes to disk, and then write them
out as DVD video. Figured the first step is to just be able to play the tapes on my PC.
I happened to have a Pinnacle Dazzle DVD recorder, so I plugged it into the VCR and to
a USB port on the PC, turned on the VCR, and entered
Suprisingly, it worked. Well, sort of. The picture was in black and white (the video is in color) and there was no sound. I tried with a second set of cables to eliminate the possibility of a bad wire; same result.
So, what do I need to do to get a full-color video with sound to play on my PC? Going further, what do I need to do to rip a copy of the video to disc, preferably in a format that can easily be transferred to DVD video ?
-thanks for any help -
Running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, running mplayer from the repo and ffmpeg compiled on 25 October using instructions here.
Here is a screen dump of the mplayer output:
Code:
MPlayer svn r34540 (Ubuntu), built with gcc-4.6 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing tv://.
TV file format detected.
Selected driver: v4l2
name: Video 4 Linux 2 input
author: Martin Olschewski <olschewski@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
comment: first try, more to come ;-)
Selected device: Pinnacle Dazzle DVC 90/100/101/
Capabilities: video capture audio read/write streaming
supported norms: 0 = NTSC; 1 = NTSC-M; 2 = NTSC-M-JP; 3 = NTSC-M-KR; 4 = NTSC-443; 5 = PAL; 6 = PAL-BG; 7 = PAL-H; 8 = PAL-I; 9 = PAL-DK; 10 = PAL-M; 11 = PAL-N; 12 = PAL-Nc; 13 = PAL-60; 14 = SECAM; 15 = SECAM-B; 16 = SECAM-G; 17 = SECAM-H; 18 = SECAM-DK; 19 = SECAM-L; 20 = SECAM-Lc;
inputs: 0 = Composite1; 1 = S-Video;
Current input: 0
Current format: YUYV
v4l2: ioctl set format failed: Invalid argument
v4l2: ioctl set format failed: Invalid argument
v4l2: ioctl set format failed: Invalid argument
Selected input hasn't got a tuner!
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 640x480 => 640x480 Packed YUY2
Selected video codec: [rawyuy2] vfm: raw (RAW YUY2)
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
V: 0.0 1121/1121 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
v4l2: 1123 frames successfully processed, -186 frames dropped.
And here is the output of dmesg after the Dazzle was connected:
Code:
[ 217.512073] usb 1-5: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcd
[ 217.770065] IR NEC protocol handler initialized
[ 217.776284] IR RC5(x) protocol handler initialized
[ 217.799241] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[ 217.804727] IR RC6 protocol handler initialized
[ 217.827417] IR JVC protocol handler initialized
[ 217.874317] em28xx: New device Pinnacle Systems GmbH DVC90 @ 480 Mbps (2304:0
207, interface 0, class 0)
[ 217.875536] em28xx #0: chip ID is em2820 (or em2710)
[ 217.900992] IR Sony protocol handler initialized
[ 217.905257] IR MCE Keyboard/mouse protocol handler initialized
[ 217.922895] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 250
[ 217.927158] IR LIRC bridge handler initialized
[ 218.002225] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 00: 1a eb 67 95 04 23 07 02 12 00 11 03 98 0e 6a 2e
....
[ 218.002739] em28xx #0: EEPROM ID= 0x9567eb1a, EEPROM hash = 0xec7d5672
[ 218.002745] em28xx #0: EEPROM info:
[ 218.002750] em28xx #0: AC97 audio (5 sample rates)
[ 218.002755] em28xx #0: 300mA max power
[ 218.002762] em28xx #0: Table at 0x06, strings=0x0e98, 0x2e6a, 0x0000
[ 218.003845] em28xx #0: Identified as Pinnacle Dazzle DVC 90/100/101/107 / Kaiser Baas Video to DVD maker / Kworld DVD Maker 2 (card=9)
[ 218.396670] saa7115 14-0025: saa7113 found (1f7113d0e100000) @ 0x4a (em28xx #0)
[ 219.164433] em28xx #0: Config register raw data: 0x12
[ 219.188297] em28xx #0: AC97 vendor ID = 0xffffffff
[ 219.200292] em28xx #0: AC97 features = 0x6a90
[ 219.200299] em28xx #0: Empia 202 AC97 audio processor detected
[ 219.660330] em28xx #0: v4l2 driver version 0.1.3
[ 220.588282] em28xx #0: V4L2 video device registered as video0
[ 220.588329] em28xx audio device (2304:0207): interface 1, class 1
[ 220.588359] em28xx audio device (2304:0207): interface 2, class 1
[ 220.588412] usbcore: registered new interface driver em28xx
[ 220.588418] em28xx driver loaded
[ 220.707664] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
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