Hi, I have a ton of VHS videos laying around. I want to have all DVD's. How do I convert VHS to DVD. I have a dvd burner on my computer (If that helps)

You'll need a Video Capture card (Pinnacle Studio or ATI All in (or TV) Wonder are good).

Two large hard drives running at ATA100 is recommended (Those WD 8MB Cache drives work great).

Then you'll need a VCR.

And TMPGEnc or the like for MPEG Encoding (The ATI AIW will capture to MPEG2 in realtime).

And some DVD Authoring software (I use Dazzle DVD Complete).

I do belive you need a tv in video card, then ya hook your vcr up to your comp and rip it to your comp.

and one important fact, ... capturing videos would make your hds spaces looked as if they are tiny bastards.... and yeah believe the dude when he says u'll need at least 2 ata100/133/150 hds that are HUGE...

QUOTE (Mshake @ Jan 17 2003, 11:34 AM)

and one important fact, ... capturing videos would make your hds spaces looked as if they are tiny bastards.... and yeah believe the dude when he says u'll need at least 2 ata100/133/150 hds that are HUGE...

Yep, a 120GB harddrive can hold around 3 1/2 hours of good quality AVIs.

http://www.vcdhelp.com/divxcap.htm

Its real hard to answer a question like this unless you really know the ropes. The page above will get you in the proper direction.

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Inciter's right, It's good to do extensive research before you jump into this expensive and sometimes frustrating hobby/job ..

I think I read every single webpage on this topic ever created. It took me about 3 months before I finally decided what I needed to get.

Good luck!

i agree vcdhelp.com has everything you need... it is a very "complete" site

QUOTE (Mshake @ Jan 17 2003, 06:34 PM)

and one important fact, ... capturing videos would make your hds spaces looked as if they are tiny bastards.... and yeah believe the dude when he says u'll need at least 2 ata100/133/150 hds that are HUGE...

wow, i gotta read up on my hardware.. since when do they have ata 150? (that isn't SCSI right?)

QUOTE (AdmStng @ Jan 17 2003, 12:45 PM)

QUOTE (Mshake @ Jan 17 2003, 06:34 PM) and one important fact, ... capturing videos would make your hds spaces looked as if they are tiny bastards.... and yeah believe the dude when he says u'll need at least 2 ata100/133/150 hds that are HUGE... wow, i gotta read up on my hardware.. since when do they have ata 150? (that isn't SCSI right?)

There is ATA160 out now i'm pretty sure.

I believe that ATA150 is serial (most new Motherboards come with it these days).

ata150 is serial ata, supported on newer mobos - not a lot of drives with it on yet tho

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The future of IDE is not IDE. It's serial ATA. On today's show, I'll talk about the future of IDE -- err, serial ATA.


Things you should know about serial ATA:


Promises a 150 megabytes per second maximum throughput in the near future, and up to 300 and 600 megabytes per second in the future.

Has smaller plugs, thinner cables, and a new power connector. They'll take up less space, run longer distances, and won't be as miserable as ribbon cables to install.

It can auto-configure. No setting jumpers to install drives. No more master and slave settings.

Promises to be backwards compatible with your IDE drives with the proper adapters.


Should you buy it now?

Motherboards with serial ATA and PCI serial ATA adapters are shipping now. We had a chance to play with a HD set up for serial ATA.


PCI's current maximum throughput is listed at 133 megabytes per second, so PCI already restricts serial ATA's listed 150 megabytes per second maximum throughput. In the real world, our testing got about 85 megabytes per second (it's not like hard drives hit 133 that often, anyhow).


A future tech? Yeah, especially when it goes to 300 and 600 megabytes per second. You'll need next-generation chipsets on your motherboard that incorporate hypertransport or PCI-X.


You'll also need much faster sustained read and writes from the drives if you want to gain any benefit from all that extra bandwidth. Otherwise, you're feeding a sewer pipe with a thimble.

Um, or the quick, dirty, but not cheap, solution... Get the Phillips Magnavox DVD Recorder that has the VHS tape player built into it.

QUOTE (meltdown @ Jan 17 2003, 09:05 PM)

Um, or the quick, dirty, but not cheap, solution... Get the Phillips Magnavox DVD Recorder that has the VHS tape player built into it.

Now your talking