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I have read similar threads, googled, and an idea of what might be required. Hopefully someone here has actual experience and can detail their methodology. My setup is: Two boxes running Slackware 13.1 (not 64) with current patches. One has a Hauppauge pvr 350 card. The other has a Hauppauge hd-1600 card. I have old VHS tapes of pre-school graduations for kids now in their thirties. Since this project has no DRM issues lets say all my video programs use standard Slackware build scripts. I am comfortable modifying and running Slackware build scripts. The collection of video programs includes ffmpeg, HandBrake, VLC, Kaffeine and avidemux2. Currently on the box with the 350 card, I use the S-video in & line in to capture the output of a super VHS player. Because this is a slowish box I was having sync issues and finally wrote a script that

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still have to know when to hit the enter key so an old tv is also hooked to the VHS player. So now I have an in-sync file nearing 6G which gets transferred the next morning [read that is the reason it's done on the slower box] to the faster box. As others in the household have a number of apple products the final file extension will probably be .m4v. I am slowing moving away from that as it is easier to stick a laptop running VLC with hdmi out on the tv then it is to go thru apple's home sharing. Another story entirely so lets not argue that topic merely say .m4v is not cast in stone. Depending on the time length of the tape, I would like to create 10 to 15 chapters in the final product. So there you have it. What steps to you use to create a final file with chapters. ps Yes the script should really check that $1 is numeric however I am/was the only user.

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