Digitizing VHS Tapes?

[Jonathan Romero]

Kindof a roundabout method, but I have had really great luck capturing from
the composite output of the VCR to a dv stream inside a consumer DV
camcorder.

Then I just use dvgrab to capture the raw DV footage to the PC, then use
ffmpeg to convert it to almost any format I could want.

I would avoid compressing on the fly if possible, it's not really worth the
trouble, better to do it later.

DV camcorders are ultra cheap these days.

On 3/11/06, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 11:53 -0800, CJ Kelley wrote:
> >         Second off, you should be able to plug ur vhs player into your
> >         tv card (if its an internal card) and just play the video and
> >         record the video via tv card software to the hard drive.
>
> I did try that last night, using XawTV (since I have a BT chip based
> card like the OP has), but although I could record just fine, I had
> problems of A/V sync. About +0.90sec when recording TV at full/native
> res (SECAM) with 24 FPS and 44.1KHz 8 bit mono audio.
> My CPU was fully loaded, 100%, so I guess it's not fast and/or powerful
> enough. It's a 1.45GHz AMD CPU (Athlon XP 1700+).
> So I guess I would need a faster CPU if I wanted to record properly, or
> a TV card with hardware encoder that can compress the video stream in
> MPEG on the fly.
> Or maybe my CPU is fast enough, but the software encoder in XawTv is not
> efficient, and another would do better... no idea... hardly an
> expert ! :-/
> But I sure would love to have a robust and reliable way to encode VHS
> tapes too, as I do have one or two that I need to digitize (to keep them
> on my hard drive though, not to transfer to DVD discs).
>
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