Audio capture

[Dov Grobgeld]

Will do. Meanwhile I have captured our wedding movie from 1992 uncompressed
which takes up about 90G. Now I have to figure out how to compress it
without degrading its quality.

Regards,
Dov

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 15:07, Mordechai Behar <
mordecha.behar at mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:

> Cool!
> Could you maybe write out a slightly more detailed description of what you
> did? Because my parents have hundreds of VHS tapes that we've been talking
> about digitizing for years, but it's rather expensive to get it done
> professionally...
>
> 2012/1/13 Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld at gmail.com>
>
>> I solved it. I had to run the pulse-audio mixer separately to setup the
>> channels that I wanted to record.
>>
>> Shabbat shalom!
>> Dov
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:00, Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I decided to use this rainy Friday morning to finally convert some old
>>> videos to digital format. Here's a short checklist of what I managed and
>>> failed to do:
>>>
>>>    - Managed to see video and hear video through my video capture and
>>>    sound-cards. Video is composite, and audio is connected to Line-In.
>>>    - Managed to record the video without sound with mencoder.
>>>    - Managed to record audio from the video with audacity.
>>>    - Noted that audacity has seval inputs refered to the same hw.x.y
>>>    device. E.g. It has
>>>    - hw0,0: Mic
>>>       - hw0,0: Front-Mic
>>>       - hw0,0: Line:0
>>>       - etc
>>>    - Noted that mencoder only has a single option for specifying the
>>>    Alsa device, e.g. adevice=hw,0.0
>>>
>>> And here I got stuck, because I couldn't figure out how to tell mencoder
>>> to record fromLine: 0 and not from the Mic.
>>>
>>> I had just as little luck with ffmpeg.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any idea of what parameter I'm missing?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Dov
>>>
>>>
>>>
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