[Novalug] [Hardware] How do you connect a video source to a typical desktop box

[Bonnie Dalzell]

I need to connect video sources - my analog vhs tape player and a dvd 
player to my desktop Ubuntu linux tower. The tower has USB 2 and Firewire 
ports as well as ethernet.

Am I best off buying some sort of external video to firewire device. Do 
these deliver a standard signal that programs like Kino can interact with 
or do they have different signals and I need to get one where the 
software for linux exits?

Alternatively will a tv tuner card inside the computer be the best choice?

I have looked at some articles at Ubuntu lists and at other articles I 
have googled but their posting dates are often 4 or 5 years ago.

Does anyone know if the input device can make a difference in the quality 
of the images? Especially when pulling them off vhs tapes? My vhs 
camera that I used for the tapes was a professional grade 
camera in its day but that was 15 years ago.

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