wesker

And the brain part?

Oh, I uhh… also bought a Panasonic AG-1980 SVHS deck. Those that know, know.

This is ableist.

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Thank you for the offer. Though, my intention is to just control everything via terminal.

I’m familiar with vhs-decode, on account of considering a domesday for digital backup of my large LaserDisc collection. I decided in the end though, that both applications are just way above and beyond what I want to do.

I do a lot of Hi8 digitizing, because I like to film in it, so this is first and foremost for that usecase. But I also want to get set up to digitize VHS found footage and lost media.

The script is nothing to write home about at the moment, with most of my time being spent just dialing it in for performance given the age of the Thinkserver. I feel that’s pretty squared away, so the next step is updating it to accept args for things like fps, resolution, etc.

#!/bin/sh

AUDIO_DEV="hw:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0"
FPS=60
OUTDIR="/home/wesker/capture"
PREVIEW_URL="udp://netsphere.lab:5000?pkt_size=1316"

exec ffmpeg -hide_banner \
  -thread_queue_size 2048 -f v4l2 -input_format yuyv422 \
    -video_size 1920x1080 -framerate "$FPS" -i /dev/video0 \
  -thread_queue_size 2048 -f alsa -i "$AUDIO_DEV" \
  -map 0:v -map 1:a \
    -c:v dnxhd -profile:v dnxhr_sq -c:a pcm_s16le \
    "$OUTDIR/$(date +%F-%H%M%S).mov" \
  -map 0:v -map 1:a \
    -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast -tune zerolatency -g 20 \
    -c:a aac -b:a 128k \
    -f mpegts "$PREVIEW_URL"

I settled on the Magewell card because I found one super cheap, their Linux drivers seem pretty well supported and maintained, and I wanted a bolted-in solution since everything is rackmount.

I paid $50 on ebay for the Magewell, because the seller had a huge lot of them to liquidate.

The TINK 4k is indeed expensive, but it was one I had laying around collecting dust. I have a museum of gaming consoles and for a while was upscaling them with the TINK, before moving on to a different solution.

The 16:9@60 is simply my not yet having implemented conditions in my script for variable capture settings. I am fortunate to have an 8TB HDD in the server, and an additional 140TB data server, so file size footprint isn’t currently high on my priorities.

(2) products will be more expensive in stores that use more expensive cashiers

I have a hard time believing they would pass the savings on to the buyer. At least not any big chain.

The site design is an aggressive eye fuck, but I like the project.

I do wish we could get some clarity on some of this. The site was only down for maybe 1.5 mo. Missing 9 months of history is a big gap that deserves being at the very least acknowledged/addressed.

Gather 'round kids, it’s time to open your backups.

@notwesker@lemmy.sdf.org it looks like the history doesn’t show up locally, however if you view our instance from another instance, the history does indeed appear and links and content resolve. So maybe it’s a federation issue that either needs manual resync, or will resync on it’s own eventually?

Also, I hate you.

I feel you. Though now I do have a few content ideas to sketch up this Friday evening.

Oh, yeah, about that. My bouncer is logged in, but I haven’t set up my client since I formatted my laptop well over a month ago…

where were you during the great content famine of 2026?

I’ve been thinking about hosting a Quake II server, lately.

I actually started a Kagi trial this week. I really like it, virtually no slop that has spilled over everywhere else. I’m still trying to justify the pricetag, though.

I had to duck&go what you’re talking about.

Rain.