Knightmare VHS Capturing
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Yea i got a massive HD, maybe gonna buy DIVX player after exams =( But thought it a good idea to cap the old vhs tapes so they cant degrade. Although tbh the vhs tapes look better then ne caps that ive managed so far.
PS im not trying to sell them, i just want a copy for myself thats not gonna demagnatise in time!
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Ive got the DivX player/free codec on my pc so i can encode it, but i need some way of playing it in my DVD player before converting in DivX is a viable option.
MPEG is the other way of doing it, will have to research what my DVD player can do though
Did a little bit of calculation that might be of use to you Steve....
Using Lifeview TVR video capture software in MPEG format: (this is where my 80GB hard drive will come in useful)
11MB/second, 25 minutes/episode, 16 episodes/series
11*25 = 275MB/episode
275MB * 16 = 4440MB (4.44GB) / series
Most DVDs can take 120mins/4.7GB of media - so i can fit 1 episode on each DVD. In thoery
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That sounds about right.
The lines that appear on screen could well be caused by the tracking of your VCR. I've tried some similar tricks using a Hauppage 'win TV 2000' card and found that the VCR tracking had to be spot on to avoid massive V-hold problems. Also remembering that Battersbys tapes were never copied particularly well (from what I've seen of them anyway) in the first place.
It's the old S-I-B-S-O principal...
St In, Bull-St Out
One thing that I'm having problems with is trying to capture anymore than a few seconds of video without dropping frames all over the place. My Hard Disk is definately big enough (200 Gb), but it can't seem to keep up during capture and hangs... Any tricks that may be useful (other than the usual 'shutdown all but this' advice)???
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Snowcat, i had problems with dropping frames at first, but i tried switching HD, ive got 200GB worth of HD but its partitioned into lots of drives, and interestingly enough the 120GB drive i bought second (NTFS) dropped all the frames, and it was the FAT32 old 80GB drive which only dropped 1 frame! Also i was using virtualdub and tried reinstalling it after clearing all the settings in the registry and that seemed to help, sometimes it gets stuck on a setting u dont want.
Incidently i tried capping it at a lower resolution 320x288 i think it was, and the funny lines i had sort of melded together and shrank so you couldnt see them, so it looked a lot better. But there were loads of sources saying to cap at higher resolutions, but iwanted to make a DVD out of it so i wanted the best quality! But ive had to stop doing that for a while now, exams
But im still not sure whether to cap at a high or low resolution, the lower one was the best quality i could get, but still didnt look as good as the VHS tape! Although this may be the difference in the moniter resolution.Steve
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Ill try and find out what resolution most DVD players work at...
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Cheers, will have to pick up a cable to run from my video to my tv card... Will post back with some results
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Best of luck to you White Devil.
I suggest caution if you are succesful, don't announce too much when the disk is complete.
Apparently, these projects are for personal use only, fine in my book but don't get yourself caught in the trap of making copies for others. The copyright situation is a VERY sore point here. Incuring the the wrath of BVA or rudely antagonising Challenge? even more than they have already been is a bad idea.
God knows, I'm desperate to get a copy of old episodes etc myself but getting shunned by the community at large by going that route is not the game to play.
Drowning in a flood of posts demanding a copy of the disks wouldn't be fun either...
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Apparently, these projects are for personal use only, fine in my book but don't get yourself caught in the trap of making copies for others. The copyright situation is a VERY sore point here. Incuring the the wrath of BVA or rudely antagonising Challenge? even more than they have already been is a bad idea.
yah well aware but good to hear it from somebody else I dont think i would produce additional copies if requested anyway, DVD burning can be done at a max of 4x so it would take too long...
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In otherwords he's saying you could start burning, go make a cup of tea, drink it, watch a whole series of KM, then make another cup of tea and then drink it, then maybe it might be finished. Okay maybe I'm exagerating a bit there but you get the point don't you .
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maybe it'll be a "do-one-episode and check how it comes out" job... Dont want to burn a whole series then it comes out looking rubbish, it might just be the end of me
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Might get a bundle of 25 DVD-R, will work out cheaper but they wont have cases...
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Hmmm, why are you trying to do this? The issue with illegal trading etc. has become a serious issue now and I ask what you are trying to achieve with this.
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Hi Joe Grocott-James ,
As i said back at the start of this thread and the other thread i started in general discussion,
i am NOT looking to sell these on ebay, i just want to keep/preservice/restore the versions ive got before my VHS copies run out
Any help would be appreciated
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All I can suggest in making new tapes from the Challenge re-runs...
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