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Thanks in advance for any help you may want to provide. First off, I have searched this site's and many other sites' forums for an answer to this, but can never find exactly what I'm looking for.
I have some old VHS tapes of family movies and such and a relative wants them put on SVCD or DVD discs, preferrably DVD and ASAP. I was thinking this myself before she suggested it, but never got around to it. Now that I have, I'm having some trouble understanding what exactly I need.
Much of what I do not understand relates to the graphics card and pulling in the video from an external source since I really have never used my graphics card for anything other than looking at the computer screen. I'm more of a
Below is a summary of my computer and related software I currently have installed:
Hardware:
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- P4 @ 2.8 GHz
- 1 GB RDR Rambus
- 2 Optical Drives: 1) DVD-R/RW, DVD-ROM, and also DVD-RAM & 2) CD-R/RW and CD-ROM
- Creative Audigy 2 Soundcard (5.1)
- nVidia Ti4200 Graphic card w/AGP 4x & TV Out/DVI
- Plenty of free HDD space
Software:
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- Nero 6.6.0.12
- Pinnacle InstantCopy
- DVD Decrypter
- DVD Shrink
- InterVideo DVD Copy 3
- VirtualDubMod
- Ultra ISO
- TMPGEnc XPress, TMPGEnc, TMPGEnc DVD Author
- DVD-Lab Pro
- K-Lite Codec Pack (Full version)
- ffmpeggui (audio)
- WaveLab (audio)
So as you can see, I pretty much have the bases covered with both hardware and software. All the software has been updated to the latest version (except the new ffdshow filter). However, I not so sure about the nVidia graphics card. On one of the other forums, I read where someone claims to have pulled in video from a VHS tape in a VCR straight through his/her nVidia Ti4200 TV Out/DVI and Audigy Soundcard. Of course they didn't leave any specific instructions/details, that's why I came here.
They claim to have hooked the video component plug into the Ti4200 and the audio component plug into the Audigy Soundcard and then used VirtualDub/VirtualDubMod to acquire the video and audio streams.
So, my question(s) is/are:
1. Does anyone know if this will actually work? A 2nd opinion is always good.
2. If so, will the video and audio quality suffer a enormously since I (as the person who said this) do not have VCR with and S-Video connection?
3. For the nVidia graphics card, I think that guy made a mistake, because mine does not have a jack/plugin for a video component plug. So, I assuming, like me, his graphics card came with an adapter for the S-Video port, which accepts both video and audio component plugs (at least that's my understanding). So, is this true? Does an S-Video adapter for graphic cards accept both audio and video or if this whole plan is feasible, will I have to pull in the video from the S-Video adapter and the sound from the Creative soundcard?
4. The forum user also mentioned using InterVideo's WinTV (name may be wrong) or other TV-capture programs. Since I don't have a TV-tuner card (not sure how he did if he has the same card I do), would something like VideoLAN software help me avoid buying a TV-tuner card right away? In other words, will a program like VideoLAN recognize my type of hardware (a VCR player that isn't connected over a LAN/Network)?
5. Is there anything else I should be concerned about during the process, that I have not mentioned in this extra-long question?
Finally, I am planning to upgrade to a new motherboard (DDR RAM), faster processor, and a ATI HDTV Wonder Graphics card (which I believe will allow me to plug the VCR into my TV and then pull the video from that using the new card. However, this upgrade will be in about 6 months, so buying a new and cheap graphics card right now is only a last resort for me.
Thanks!
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