Mobile/PDA About Us Advertise here
User User name Password  
  Not registered yet? Register here.
Lost your password? Click here. 		 
  Home   News   Guides   Downloads   Glossary   Hardware   Profiles   Forums   v4  
 Advertise at AfterDawn.com     Link to us!     Private messages     Compose a private message     List of all updated threads     Threads without replies     Search messages
Friday 24.1.2025 / 02:27
Search AfterDawn Forums:        In English   Suomeksi   På svenska
afterdawn.com > forums > digital video > video capturing from analog sources > need advice capturing vhs with ati mmc
Show topics
 
Forums
Forums
Need advice capturing VHS with ATI MMC
  Jump to:
 
Posted Message
Mara-23
Newbie
_ 		16. January 2006 @ 05:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi, I'm on a mission to convert my family's old home recorded tapes to DVD. I had ViVo on my Radeon X800XT PE so I figured why not. The task has showed to be much harder than I expected, though. I'm currently planning to use ATI's MMC for capturing, I tried with Nero Vision express and Virtualdub but neither of them felt quite suitable.
Anyway, so the tape I'm going to capture is about 2 h and 40 min long and was recorded in LP mode. This is supposed to fit on one single DVD-5. I'm using a composite cable for video, I tried S-Video (through a scart adapter), but I only got BW picture so I figured I should composite.
To the questions.

What resolution should I use? Should I use VCD, SVCD or DVD resolution? At what bitrates do these formats reach their peaks where there is no gain from setting any higher bitrate than x? Should I use VBR or CBR? The source is PAL and the DVD will be PAL, too.

My system is:
Abit IS7-E
Pentium 4 3.2E GHz Prescott
4*256 MB RAM
Radeon X800XT PE
Hitachi T7K250 160 GB + Maxtor DiamondMax9+ 80 GB
and so on...

Any input is appreciated. :)
[ + quote]

This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 16. January 2006 @ 05:24
rick5446
Suspended due to non-functional email address
_ 		17. January 2006 @ 10:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Don't know if this helps !! But I have the ATI ALL IN WONDER 9000..I just use the settings it starts up with,everything comes out AOK..I card captures everything in Mpeg2 which is DVD.Now I don't know if your card is the same,but once you've got it on your hard-drive in Mpeg U have to convert it to DVD.I use TMPGEncDVD16 to convert.Now if by chance your converted DVD is more then 4.36GIGS,U can use a free program called DVD Shrink to compress it.DVD Shrink will burn it for U also,as will TMPGEncDVD16,if it the proper size [4.36]
Your LP is not going to improve with diff.settings,the quality of the finished product,will not be any better then the source.But you will end up with something that U can watch & enjoy on a DVD
next make sure U use QUALITY DVD's,if U buy from retail stores,buy FUJI,Verbatim..do not buy store brands as they are mostly very low quality..6 mons from now your DVD might not even work [QUALITY DVD'S are very IMPORTANT]
I don't recommend VCD OR SVCD as to gain the same quality U would probably need 3 CD's unless all U have is a CD Burner,but by looking at your system you should have DVD BURNER,IF NOT U can get one very inexpensivly,I highly recommend the TEAC DV-W516GB,although their are other preferences out their [NEC,PLEXTOR,etc]
Another recom.,don't burn any faster then 8x.FASTER COULD RESULT IN UNUSEABLE DVD's
[ + quote]

This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 17. January 2006 @ 11:04
rick5446
Suspended due to non-functional email address
_ 		17. January 2006 @ 10:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
[ + quote]

This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 17. January 2006 @ 11:22
Advertisement
_ 		__
 
_
rick5446
Suspended due to non-functional email address
_ 		17. January 2006 @ 10:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Don't know if this helps !! But I have the ATI ALL IN WONDER 9000..I just use the settings it starts up with,everything comes out AOK..I card captures everything in Mpeg2 which is DVD.Now I don't know if your card is the same,but once you've got it on your hard-drive in Mpeg U have to convert it to DVD.I use TMPGEncDVD16 to convert.Now if by chance your converted DVD is more then 4.36GIGS,U can use a free program called DVD Shrink to compress it.DVD Shrink will burn it for U also,as will TMPGEncDVD16,if it the proper size [4.36]
Your LP is not going to improve with diff.settings,the quality of the finished product,will not be any better then the source.But you will end up with something that U can watch & enjoy on a DVD
next make sure U use QUALITY DVD's,if U buy from retail stores,buy FUJI,Verbatim..do not buy store brands as they are mostly very low quality..6 mons from now your DVD might not even work [QUALITY DVD'S are very IMPORTANT]
[ + quote]
afterdawn.com > forums > digital video > video capturing from analog sources > need advice capturing vhs with ati mmc
 

Digital video: AfterDawn.com | AfterDawn Forums
Music: MP3Lizard.com
Gaming: Blasteroids.com | Blasteroids Forums | Compare game prices
Software: Software downloads
Blogs: User profile pages
RSS feeds: AfterDawn.com News | Software updates | AfterDawn Forums
International: AfterDawn in Finnish | AfterDawn in Swedish | AfterDawn in Norwegian | download.fi
Navigate: Search | Site map
About us: About AfterDawn Ltd | Advertise on our sites | Rules, Restrictions, Legal disclaimer & Privacy policy
Contact us: Send feedback | Contact our media sales team
 
  © 1999-2025 by AfterDawn Ltd.

  IDG TechNetwork