Vrecord Documentation
This documentation is up to date as of vrecord version 2018-06-11.
Table of Contents
- Summary
- Installation and Basic Use
- The vrecord Window
- Passthrough
- Editing Settings
- GUI Mode
- DV Capture
- Analog Digitization Tips
- Help and Troubleshooting
Summary
Vrecord is open-source software for capturing a video signal and turning it into a digital file. Its purpose is to make videotape digitization or transfer easier. Vrecord can capture analog and digital signals through a variety of inputs and can create digital video files in a variety of formats and codecs. Vrecord has been designed with needs of audiovisual archivists in mind.
Vrecord uses AMIA Open Source’s ffmpegdecklink and mpv to do its dirty work. Other dependencies are cowsay, mkvtoolnix, qcli and xmlstarlet.
Currently vrecord supports macOS or Linux, and Blackmagic Design capture cards with the Blackmagic driver installed. Some notes on needed hardware are provided.
If you want to see a more detailed description about how to digitize analog videotape see our document on analog digitization.
Contributing
We want vrecord to be a helpful tool for audiovisual archivists and others. Anyone can contribute to vrecord! If you experience any problems with vrecord you can open a new issue with our GitHub issue tracker. Try to see if you can replicate the issue yourself first and describe in detail what factors led to it. Please let us know if you were able to successfully replicate the issue.
For more tips on using GitHub and contributing directly to vrecord, please see our Contribution Guide, but feel free to contribute to vrecord by creating a fork and sending pull requests.
Enjoy!
The vrecord Team
License
Vrecord is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.