linux

capture s-video via ffmpeg (or: how to digitalise your old vhs-stuff)

I wanted to digitalise some old VHS-Videos.

The main thing is, that my /dev/video1 (TV-Card) got more than one inputs (regular TV-Cable input and S-Video) How to tell the program to grab input 2 instead of standard input 1?

After hours of searching with all possible programs on Linux, I finally landed in the console with ffmpeg.

ffmpeg -f alsa -ar 44100 -ac 1 -i plughw:0,2  -f video4linux2 -s sxga -r 25 -vc 2 -i /dev/video1 output.avi
 

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