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r1013
19th September 2006, 23:53
I have a few old VHS tapes I want to digitize.

I have a Winfast TV2000 XP TV card.

I know I can either use Winfast PVR or Virtualdub to capture to video through the TV card.

I tried it 4 times.

The first time I used the Winfast PVR and saved it as a MPEG-2. The sound and video are not near as good as the VHS

The second time I saved it as a WMV and it was about the same.

The third time I tried Virtualdub. Under compression I used Xvid but it crashed when I tried to capture it.

The fourth time I used Virtualdub and used Divx. It worked but the voice didn’t match up.

What format/settings/ect can I capture these at to at least keep the quality the same as the VHS?

If it matters.. Its not really necessary to make these files compatible with DVD players. All I want to do save these to a data DVD.

Thanks

Boulder
20th September 2006, 05:35
What format/settings/ect can I capture these at to at least keep the quality the same as the VHS?
Capture in a lossless format using YUY2 colorspace. HuffYUV is a quite fast lossless codec.

jggimi
20th September 2006, 06:43
There's an echo in here. I just pointed to our FAQ and Guide in another thread. :)

Guide: http://www.doom9.org/capture/start.html
FAQ: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=32575