Re:My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes
by bronco21016 on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @11:57AM
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Thanks for posting that YouTube link.
I started down the path of doing this project for a family member after we found an old VCR and I had been playing with a few of the cheap HDMI capture cards.
I've had a world of hurt with video/audio sync issues and the recommendation he uses to grab the component to HDMI device led me down a path of searches where I finally found that my V4L2 capture with ffmpeg was using a different clock than the ALSA sound capture device. Using ffmpeg's -ts flag I have set V4L2 use 'abs', the same as ALSA.
I haven't done any extended length captures yet so I'm not positive I won't have drift, but on the shorter length clips it has worked flawlessly.
Anyway, thanks again for the link. His advice led me down a path that finally seems to have made the capture aspect of this project work!
I started down the path of doing this project for a family member after we found an old VCR and I had been playing with a few of the cheap HDMI capture cards.
I've had a world of hurt with video/audio sync issues and the recommendation he uses to grab the component to HDMI device led me down a path of searches where I finally found that my V4L2 capture with ffmpeg was using a different clock than the ALSA sound capture device. Using ffmpeg's -ts flag I have set V4L2 use 'abs', the same as ALSA.
I haven't done any extended length captures yet so I'm not positive I won't have drift, but on the shorter length clips it has worked flawlessly.
Anyway, thanks again for the link. His advice led me down a path that finally seems to have made the capture aspect of this project work!