Hi, its the first time to be here in this forum. I am not at all technical. So I hope you can give an answer in very simple technical words.

I have some old VHS-videotapes, but they are very valueable for me. I want them to record on my computer and next burn them on a DVD.

I have installed Kdenlive. In my computer I have a Hauppauge TVWin-card, analog tv by connecting a coaxcable. I use the program TVtime in Ubuntu Hardy Heron 64bit for watching television.

I succeeded in seeing a videotape on my computer by connecting the VHS-videorecorder to the TV-card, also with the program TVtime.

How can I record the videotapes on my harddisk ? When this problem is solved, it is probably not so difficult to burn a DVD.

Using kdenlive, you should be able to use the "Video 4 Linux" option in the "Capture monitor". Note the configuration options.

Alternatively: try this approach:

http://forum.videohelp.com/topic307679.html

Regards

Mads

Thank you Mads, I succeed in recording by using the link http://forum.videohelp.com/topic307679.html

Now I am trying to record them on a DVD. The file has audio-extension MPEG1 and video-extension MPEG2.

I want to burn it on a normal dvd , which has JPEG-extension.

How can I do that ?

A couple of options for you. Check in the repo's for your current distro to see if they're there first. If you're not on a debian based system (eg Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Debian etc) you can likely find them elsewhere:

KmediaFactory*

DVDstyler*

ManDVD

* In current Kubuntu Intrepid repositories.

Thanks for your answer. I didn't succeed in the beginning. Later on I tried to do it in Vista with WindowsDVD-maker. This was inmideately succesfull. Next time I try to do this in Ubuntu.

Thanks for your answer.

The best looking dvd authoring tool that is easy to use and yet powerfull enough for all I want to do is 2ManDVD (which is new version of the ManDVD) you can find ubuntu packages on getdeb.net

You can simply use Kdenlive 0.7.4 which includes a DVD export tool.
JB published a video tutorial here: http://www.kdenlive.org/tutorial/kdenlive-create-dvd