Some weeks ago I wrote about capturing video with an old Pinnacle DC10+ card on Ubuntu 10.10. Since then I have had varying success capturing hours of video from both Hi8 and VHS sources. Often lavrec will exit in the middle of a recording with somewhat unknown error messages such as: # dmesg: DC10plus[0]: jpg_sync [...]

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Like probably many people, I have a lot of old analog video recordings on HI-8 and VHS tape I just have forgotten to keep up to date with technology. I guess it’s time to start capturing video. Soon… First, the camcorders charger is broken, and buying a new one is kind of difficult, but luckily, [...]

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If you need more disk capacity for your Windows installation in VirtualBox you can make a new virtual disk in VirtualBox with the capacity you want. The new disk must be larger than the old one. Then use System Rescue CD with the partitioning tool GParted to copy the original disk over to the larger [...]

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