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Who are we?
We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
We are one. We are legion. And we're trying really hard not to forget.
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I do have an Sony VCR DVD combo with s-video. I was look at the black magic cards on eBay and there are some from 2008 from a Mac and I'm wondering if they will work on Linux.
Is the DVD a writer? If you're fortunate enough, that can be the easiest way to dump it down: Pop it on a DVD, and import.
Otherwise, old black magic cards can surprise you under Linux! Though definitely worth looking if anybody on the forums has used the one you're looking at.
You want to work natively: Get an S-video out into an s-video in that handles the resolution correctly, and makes you a nice native-resolution file.
VHS archiving can be a goddamned rabbit hole, it's worth deciding what will be good enough". Or if you want to go down the rabbit hole, look up Timebase Correction.
I'm pretty sure its a Sony SLV-D350p which might be able to dump a vhs to DVD.
I'm think about buying a magic card, but I'm going to do some research before I pull the trigger on one.
Vhs archiving is really a huge rabbit hole with so to archive vhs, but its super fun.