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I wish to record vhs tapes. I have an easycap dc60 capture card I am using with linux.
my video device is /dev/video0
my audio device is hw:2,0
The gui plays them just fine.
The gui will record them just fine.
However, I am attempting to help someone elderly to do this.
It needs to be "one click easy".
The shell seems to be the only way.

Can someone help me form a complete and functioning shell line to do this?
I have spent many hours in the docs for VLC.
I keep running into issues with VLC 2.1.6 misinterpreting the line I use.
I would rather have someone make a working line and then I will try and tweak that.

I basically need to convert VHS into an mkv file using blueray compression (x264).
The audio should be compressed. Any format is ok.
I would like VLC to quit when done.
There needs to be a stop time.

Thanks

You can copy the command line options from the last page of the GUI wizard.

Thanks, the the command lines specify the video and the audio hardware and a live-caching otpion.
There is no mention of the --sout and transcoding settings for the conversion.