Convert VHS tape to DVD
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If you got an S-video cable with it, this should allow you to connect the video component from a scart cable->S-video cable to graphics card, then a cable from the Scart to soundcard for audio component.
One of the utilities in Nero/Roxio suites will let you capture it, or VirtualDub/Mod...
You're going to need something else, the GeForce 7 series was the last series of cards to support video in, none of the 8 series has VIVO support (nVidia also haven't release any form of VIVO driver for Vista). You can get a cheap capture card for less than £30 that will do a very good job of capturing video, they are normally sold as 'TV Cards' but a lot of the analog ones have composite and S-video inputs, some even allow you to capture the audio through the same card as well.
I've always found the results from using a TV card to be actually worse then the original footage.
I tend to to use a DVD recorder then connect the VHS recorder to that using suitable inputs or use a DV camcorder with video bypass, you connect the VHS recorder to that and use the camcorders hardware engine to effectively copy the VHS footage via the camcorder to your hard disk.
I tend to to use a DVD recorder then connect the VHS recorder to that using suitable inputs or use a DV camcorder with video bypass, you connect the VHS recorder to that and use the camcorders hardware engine to effectively copy the VHS footage via the camcorder to your hard disk.
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Aren't all of the Svideo connectors on graphics cards video out rather than an input?
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Another vote for using a dvd recorder directly, connected to a VHS player or your camera. If you want you can import the finalised dvd into software like TMPEG DVD Author to edit and/or add fancy menus. When I archive say a 2 hour programme including adverts off sky and want the maximum quality possible, what I let the dvd recorder record half the programme at a high bit rate so that 1 hour takes up a full dvd, including the adverts. Do this so you have two dvds each with half the programme. Then import this into DVD author and join them together, edit out the adverts and I usually end up with a single programme say 1 hour 30 mins long, which would not fit on a single dvd at the bit rate it was recorded at originally. This is what you want though because you simply build the DVD and than shrink it to size with DVD shrink using 2 pass mode. I believe this gives you the maximum quality possible.
Correct, S-Video Out only.
You will need a TV Capture card of some sort with either a S-Video or AV in.
Yes, like I said the GeForce 7 was the last card to support Video In, it actually does a good job at capturing the video at a good resolution (DVD resolution) but the newer cards don't have this and there is no Vista support. I had an ASUS TV card that captured to MPEG2 over S-video and the quality was at least as good as the source, you have to be careful because there are a lot of cheap capture devices on eBay that only do low resolution capture.
Just to add ,there are a few other devices for capturing. I use a TV card myself ,but's theres some capture devices that link to your video recorder and pass on the signals through the USB2 ports.I think there is one called Pinnacle. Capturing from camcorder through a Firewire card always gives the best quality and I had heard of folk running there videos through a camcorder , the ones with video input and then back through to the Pc using FW. Bit of a faf if you ask me , but the quality might be better.
Regarding rickyt's point, you can use something like a mini DV camera with passthrough to capture it via firewire. If you haven't got anything to hand then eBay often have cheap broken cameras that still have a functioning passthrough because it's normally the tape heads and mechanism that break before the actual camera. It's a little fiddly because you have to hook up the camera to the power, connect the firewire, power the VCR and hook it up to the camera but it can give you a good quality picture as mini DV cameras often have a fairly decent digital to analog converter in them.