I've been trying for a while to get a cheap system set up to transfer some old college videos from svhs to dvd. I've gradually accumulated bits and pieces including a VideOh! PCI card, which I put in my Windows pc. The card worked, but the software it would work with was very limited. I read it would work with Linux, so I've bought a better motherboard (ASUS P4B533-VM) for the Linux pc (still only 1.8 MHz, but I'm hoping to get a cheap chip to get it up to 2.4 or 2.8, the Asus sute has a list of compatibles) and I've updated my Ubuntu to version 10.

Now MythTv is installed, and MythUbuntu, and the card is working and recording, though at the moment only by a fudge that makes it think the svhs input is a tv programme. What I have to do now is work out how to delete my tests, and how to export the recorded footage to something I can edit in. But promising so far. I need more memory (only 256k at the moment). The 40Gb hard drive is ok for testing but won't go far once I get going.