If I record a 2 1/2 hour movie, that would work out to 188.8 GB. I recorded a 60 second clip using the record button, which was 1258504614 bytes long.
I am talking about something like 166 Mb/second raw data plus overhead. That works out to 48000x16x2, or about 0.15 Mb/second. Add to that the audio in raw PCM 48000 Hz stereo. This works out to 720x480x30x16, or about 165.9 Mb/second for the video.
My video capture card outputs NTSC video in packed YUY2 format (16 bits/pixel) at a resolution of 720x480 and a frame rate of close to 30 frames/second. The first is by using the record button, which preserves the audio and video as-is without transcoding. There are two ways to record video with VLC. However, it is just not usable for my purpose. It is fine the way it is, and it works perfectly the way it was implemented. There is no bug in the way the record button works.
It works by preserving the video and audio as they are received by VLC (in my case, as they are output by my video capture card). I am well aware of how the record button works in VLC.
Now that I have updated VLC to version 2.2.1 I can no longer successfully record a movie from my video capture card using Media->Convert/Save. So I was correct in thinking that the first two movies I successfully recorded using VLC a few weeks ago were indeed recorded using version 2.1.6. VLC was updated from version 2.1.6 to version 2.2.1 on Feb 2, 2016.
Update- I checked the update history of my Linux Mint. Problem is, I don't want to just watch it, I want to record it to an MPEG file.Īny suggestions? Any possibility a bug was introduced into VLC recently? I can open the capture card and play it in VLC, and it shows the movie just fine. Yes, my video capture card is fully supported by my OS. Do you have any idea how big that file would be for a 2 1/2 hour movie? And no, my computer isn't doing anything else while recording the movie. That records uncompressed video and uncompressed audio to an AVI file. No, I can't just record by displaying advanced controls and using the Record button. Between then and now I did a few recommended updates on this computer, and I think that VLC may have been included in the updates. A few weeks ago I was able to record a couple of VHS tapes just fine (same computer, same settings). Clearly the video file is corrupt at those places. And once the video gets past that funny spot VLC shows "0:00" for both the current position and the length of the video. Except there will be a few places in the video where the picture freezes for a short while (a few seconds to a minute) while the audio is still playing. I open it with VLC Media Player and find it mostly plays fine, and even has audio (although the audio when silent while recording). When the tape finishes playing I stop the conversion process and find I have a video file of about the right size. The silent video will continue to start and stop for the duration of the movie. The video might start playing again in a minute or two, but the audio remains quiet once it stops. Then the picture on the screen freezes, or the audio suddenly goes silent, or both.
VLC shows the video on the screen and plays the audio and converts it to an MPEG file. Start the tape playing in the VCR, and everything should be good. Click Start to begin the conversion while showing the video on screen and playing the audio. Set my destination file to a file in /home/username/Videos. Select Convert, check the box for Display the output, select my own custom profile (MPEG2) which is set to Encapsulation MPEG-TS, Video codec MPEG-2, 6000 kbps, Audio codec MP3 128 kbps 2 channels 44100 Hz. Select capture device as Video Camera, Video device name /dev/video0, Audio device name hw:2,0, Video standard NTSC. My setup: Linux Mint 17.3 on dual core 1.6GHz processor with 16G RAM and 512G SSD (a fast enough system). I am trying to convert some VHS tapes to MPEG using VLC.