VHS2DVD Guide

[jave]

I wrote a simple tutorial about converting VHS tape to DVD-Video. Some friends have asked me about VHS to DVD conversion so I decided to write a tutorial and make it public. It's only few pages and main purpose is to have a quick handbook to do it without a lot of options. The best way I found.

Could you please read it through and write an opinion to it? I really don't want to show them something incorrect.

http://vhs-to-dvd.janvesely.com/

Thank you very much!

[gkar]

Well done, Jave.

Clean, concise with relevant snapshots for the newbie to grasp the basics. If they want to go to the next step there is plenty of docs around.

I'm an .AVI man myself (due to the free software available -hey, where I come from US bucks add up). Ever thought of doing one for us

:sly:

[PhillipWyllie]

Nice guide. Three things; why are you encoding the MPEG2 @ 720*576 when 352*576 would be more appropriate( the "resolution" of VHS(pal) is the same as VCD). When I DVD my VHSs I tend to select the highest possible quality and let the encoder decide the bitrate for each scene, remembering that the theoretical maximum bitrate is 352*567*25= 4950 kbps. DVD Author can burn your DVDs for you( using the inbuilt tool), although it seems to select the highest burn rate by default and you can't change it.

[scharfis_brain]

@PhillipWyllie:
352x576@25fps will be a stream of 7.25 MBytes/sec, so why should one not be able to go higher than 5Mbit/sec ?

@jave: Do you know about the great possibilies filtering VHS, so it becomes:
- noiseless
- dropfree
- crisp
- lesser chroma bleeding

[jave]

Thank you for comments.

Resolution: I know VHS has lower resolution but grabbing to full pal is "sure thing". Nevertheless I'll try it.

Bitrate: I'd rather use variable and x-pass but it takes too long.

Deinterlacing: I know, there is this crazy thing. I did it without deinterlacing and the result on normal DVD player was very bad - the movie was shaking. Really weird. Maybe I done something wrong. I'll test this in the future once again, I agree this seems strange.

2scharfis_brain: I'm not sure it was a question or you want tell me... Denoise is in TPMGEnc like one of the filters, it works but takes very long time. For sharpness there is one too. With dropfree you mean without dropping the frames when you're grabbing? It depends on hardware ... About chroma you have something here for example: http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/capture/chroma_artefacts.html
but it's beyond the scope of this quick guide.