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I have connected a Pinnacle Dazzle to my Fedora workstation and the system has correctly identified it and created /dev/video2 and an audio device (that I see in my audio settings).

I want to use this to capture some old VHS tapes and I can use tvtime to see the video (not the audio though). But how can I capture the video and audio streams into a video file?

I tried to find tools for this, but all I could find was video editors, not capturers.

Bart Friederichs
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  • The Dazzle should appear as an ALSA audio source. However, its volume control is available via v4l2. You may need to explicitly select the video source and un-mute the audio via v4l2-ctl --set-standard=pal --set-input=0 --set-ctrl=mute=0. Have you done that? Afterwards, you should be able to use any software to mux the audio and video streams such as ffmpeg (with multiple -i and -map options). Be aware: A/V synchronization may imperfect. Only with hardware muxers I achieved perfect results. – Hermann Jul 26 '21 at 08:58
  • @Hermann I haven't tried that, but I will. – Bart Friederichs Jul 26 '21 at 09:42

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