Copying vhs to dvd

[Peter]

No Mikeos i dont have that setup, i was hoping to be able to get hold of a
capturing device and copy them that way. I have heard and read of a usb plug
in device that will allow you to copy from the vhs unit onto my computer,
then convert it to dvd format.

Thanx

Peter

[M.L.]

Post by Peter
No Mikeos i dont have that setup, i was hoping to be able to get hold of a
capturing device and copy them that way. I have heard and read of a usb plug
in device that will allow you to copy from the vhs unit onto my computer,
then convert it to dvd format.

WinAVI Video Capture (free, burns to DVD)
<quote>
2. Supports video tape, web-cam, TV card and other AV devices.
3. Supports almost all video output formats, including AVI, WMV, ASF,
DivX, Xvid, RM, VCD, SVCD, DVD, and MPEG1/2/4.
</quote>
OS: Win NT/95/98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
http://video-capture.winavi.com/

[rich]

Post by Peter
No Mikeos i dont have that setup, i was hoping to be able to get hold of
a capturing device and copy them that way. I have heard and read of a
usb plug in device that will allow you to copy from the vhs unit onto my
computer, then convert it to dvd format.

WinAVI Video Capture (free, burns to DVD) <quote>
2. Supports video tape, web-cam, TV card and other AV devices. 3.
Supports almost all video output formats, including AVI, WMV, ASF, DivX,
Xvid, RM, VCD, SVCD, DVD, and MPEG1/2/4. </quote>
OS: Win NT/95/98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
http://video-capture.winavi.com/

Are the VHS tapes commercial? If so, you might get caught out by macro
copyright protection. Home made ones will be ok.

Very annoying if you buy an expensive capture device and it tells you it
can not record the video. Having said that, my Hauppauge pvr150 pci card
does not seem to bother and a really cheap Digitus usb does not bother
either.
The difference - pvr150 has a nice efficient mpeg2 encoder & the Digitus
is more like a DVD recorder (variable bitrate but only just), but both
work.

Once you have the footage on computer, then for simple dvd authoring and
free there is DeVeDe.

Best bet is still the original suggestion. Beg, borrow or steal a dvd
recorder and some composite leads.