Best encode for VHS?

[nepenthe420]

Hello all. I have encoded a few DVDs with Divx5 that looked spectacular, I am grateful for this technology and everyone who has become quite skilled at it.

My question: Is there a way I could encode a VHS tape to DIVX or would it have to me (S)VCD? I am looking for the highest quality copy I can render.

550 Athlon(I know what ya'll are thinking!), IBM Aptiva,

Thanks much

[Hiro2k]

Well you would have to do it through a capture card, but I think your processor is to slow to compress the video to DivX and do the audio without dropping alot of frames. My 700 Duron would drop frames so I don't think you would have alot of luck with a 500.

Most TV Capture cards have hardware that can help the processor, but that's only for MPEG1 or MPEG2. If you have a software TV Capture, like the ones on Geforce 2/3/4 which use VIVO, then it's all processor and I don't think you can do what your asking.

[antiriad]

Hello Nepenthe420,

to encode my VHS-tapes, I took first a Hauppauge WinTV-card and Virtualdub to capture the video- and audiosignal. (Virtualdub is in the download section and there is also a great guide)
I captured uncompressed, and got a big file in aceptable quality.
Then i encoded the videofile in 2-pass DivX (with following filters: -deinterlace(mode:blend) -temporal smoother(3) -cropping -resize)
Audio was encoded in MP3.
Since some months, I take a miroVIDEO DC30 capturecard, which captures the video in MJPEG, so the captured files are not so big and i get a better quality (with the temporal smoother, the solution is now better than the original VHS-video)

Good luck.....

[nepenthe420]

Thanks for your reply!
Could you recommend a tutorial for the process for future reference so when my insolvency lifts I can upgrade and go for it.