Hi Terje, I have used a cheap chinese USB video grabber to digitise VHS. But I cannot remember the type. I used VLC, which worked fine, but OBS should also work. I had loaned the grabber, and have not tested if Cinelerra-GG could use it directly. I cannot remember if video and audio showed up as two different devices or not. If the audio is not a separate device, then I doubt Audacity can record with it. The quality of VHS is not that great, well below SD, I did not use a lossless format. There are several, Andrea listed some he used. But all those use very big files. I don't know about the audio quality, it is likely more than good enough for VHS. But my guess is that a motherboard's A/D is better. MatN On Sat, 25 Sep 2021 16:52:41 +0200 "Terje J. Hanssen via Cin" <[email protected]> wrote:
Although I have and have used some Black Magic external tools for this, I'm also interested in simple and low cost options for Linux workstations.
In a recent article the Augustin VGB100 usb2.0 video adaper and VLC was used to record video https://www.arsouyes.org/en/blog/2021/2021-05-17_Numerisation_VHS
Any experience here with similar A/D video adapters, quality and applications for recording on Linux?.
Second I wonder if some lossless, compressed master video format is available for better quality before final converting with typical ffmeg?
And third, maybe a stupid question: Is it possible to record just Audio with an A/D Video adapter, which audio record format and what quality, compared with a pure Audio adapter? And if so, can audio record applications like Audiacity be used?
Terje