How to capture composite video
I have a number of VHS tapes which I'd like to digitize, and I'm
trying to figure out where to start, hardware- and software-wise.
I'm running Debian Buster (10.5), kernel 4.19.0-10-amd64. I found a
pcHDTV HD-5500, which I believe is basically a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150
tweaked for Linux, and dropped it into my box, where it is found by
lspci and shows up as /dev/video0. The card has an extender cable
which leads to a bracket with RCA connectors for audio and composite
video, as well as an S-Video connector. (For now, at least, I'm not
interested in the TV tuner on the card.)
Presumably, with the proper software and configuration settings,
I should be able to plug a VCR into the RCA connectors and have
video come up on the computer's screen, and hopefully save it to
disk in some sort of standard format.
What's a good starting point to find information on how to do this?
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