This is an ansible role intended to be ran as a supplement to my server-base playbook upon request Some considerations of this are the expectations of docker and samba already being installed and configured

This ansible task automatically builds out a matt-cloud debian puck to be a VCR Ripping device There is a hardware requirement of USB RCA Capture device, and this device must have its settings configured in defauts/main.yaml

This process uses stages of different software to accomplish the goal of making capturing a VHS tape as automatic as possible

Most of the layers include:

• ffmpeg service to combine the video and audio of the USB capture device into a rtmp stream
• mediamtx to automatically save rtmp streams to a mp4 file
• a docker apache php container for the control site
• a python API service to control the ffmpeg streaming service
• a small helper script to monitor the elapsed time and stop streaming after the selected time
• a playbook to mount and format a sd card when using ARM based puck systems