I wonder if you can help me.

I have a VHS video tape with some home movies on.
I want to convert the home movies from video to DVD. Then on my computer, I
want to save sections of the home movies (from DVD) as separate files to
play on a digital photo frame.
.
I have a VHS video recorder and a DVD recorder.  I tried connecting 1 SCART
cable, with one end in the video recorder and the other end in the DVD
recorder.
However, I could not get this to work.

How do I go about connecting the video recorder to my DVD recorder?
What leads must I connect to be able to copy from my video to my DVD
recorder? Do I need to connect an aerial even though I won't need to use it?

Alternatively is it possible to connect my video recorder straight to my
desktop PC? If so, how and with what cable(s)?

Once I have my home movies on DVD, using my computer, I want to copy small
sections of the movies and save them as new files.
Does anyone know of any free software that will enable me to copy small
sections and save them as new mpeg files?

For information I use Ubuntu & Debian.

I hope you can help me.

I appreciate any help or information given.

Thanks!

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I demand that Neil Hindry may or may not have written...

> I have a VHS video tape with some home movies on. I want to convert the
> home movies from video to DVD. Then on my computer, I want to save section
s
> of the home movies (from DVD) as separate files to play on a digital photo
> frame.

> I have a VHS video recorder and a DVD recorder.  I tried connecting 1 SCAR
T
> cable, with one end in the video recorder and the other end in the DVD
> recorder. However, I could not get this to work.

That should work fine, so long as you tell the DVD recorder to take input
from EXT1 or EXT2 or something similar - exactly as you would if you were
recording from a set-top box.

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> Once I have my home movies on DVD, using my computer, I want to copy small
> sections of the movies and save them as new files. Does anyone know of any
> free software that will enable me to copy small sections and save them as
> new mpeg files?

dvdrip & gopchop should do the job.

> For information I use Ubuntu & Debian.

... however, you'll need to install libxine-dev then recompile gopchop so
that you can see what you're cutting.

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