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dmerrick

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29. October 2010 @ 21:36

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I have a lot of old DVD tapes that my kids watched. I now want my grandchildren to be able to see them. However, VHS is dead - not a bad thing.

I have copied family VHS's and created DVD's of all the old family tapes.

I am assuming that the VHS tapes are encrypted. Do I have to copy the encrypted VHS tape to my hard drive and then use DVDFab or AnyDVD to decrypt and then copy to DVD using Shrink an Nero?

I know there are other programs but will what I have do the job or am I totally off base and there is another - better - way to save these tapes for my Grandkids ( and hopefully their kids - but they can figure out how to do that if I can get them to DVD's - anything else is there problem).

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attar

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30. October 2010 @ 06:42

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AFAIK there is no encryption on tapes.
Some commercial tapes (all my Disney tapes and Total Recall - but none of the others) had Macrovision which prevent them being recorded by a device which honours Macrovision.
A Macrovision tape can be copied if a cheap video 'stabilizer' is installed between the deck and the recorder.
Some PC capture cards ignore Macrovision entirely so there is no requirement for an stabilizer (I have one made 20 years ago that still works).

http://www.checkhere22.com/stabilizer/

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dmerrick

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30. October 2010 @ 08:14

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Originally posted by attar:
AFAIK there is no encryption on tapes.
Some commercial tapes (all my Disney tapes and Total Recall - but none of the others) had Macrovision which prevent them being recorded by a device which honours Macrovision.
A Macrovision tape can be copied if a cheap video 'stabilizer' is installed between the deck and the recorder.
Some PC capture cards ignore Macrovision entirely so there is no requirement for an stabilizer (I have one made 20 years ago that still works).

http://www.checkhere22.com/stabilizer/

Thanks. I will give it a try. I know I could not copy them 10 years ago but I didn't have the technology that I have now. I will check your link and give it a try.

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xolx

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30. October 2010 @ 10:31

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Take a look at this device as well:
Grex Advanced digital video stabilizer with high quality S-Video support
http://www.xdimax.com/grex/grex.html

It has a number of additional features like recording DVD to DVD amd recording from Cable channels to DVD.
In your case you will need something like this:
http://www.xdimax.com/grex_faq/faq_howto.html#vcc

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dmerrick

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6. November 2010 @ 13:17

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Originally posted by xolx:
Take a look at this device as well:
Grex Advanced digital video stabilizer with high quality S-Video support
http://www.xdimax.com/grex/grex.html

It has a number of additional features like recording DVD to DVD amd recording from Cable channels to DVD.
In your case you will need something like this:
http://www.xdimax.com/grex_faq/faq_howto.html#vcc

I tried a couple of my tapes. They recorded with sound but the movement was very jerky and in places the audio did not match the picture.

I am using AVS Video Recorder and the settings are YU2;640x480;30.0fps;147.45Mbps

Any suggestions - I could buy the DVD's but I hate to just throw out the vhs tapes

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davexnet

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6. November 2010 @ 15:14

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Try STOIK. If it doesn't work, describe your setup and method in much more detail.

A second thing you can do is post a small section of your bad capture. Sometimes
it gives clues as to what is going wrong.
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Stoik_Video_Capture

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dmerrick

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6. November 2010 @ 16:20

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Originally posted by davexnet:
Try STOIK. If it doesn't work, describe your setup and method in much more detail.

A second thing you can do is post a small section of your bad capture. Sometimes
it gives clues as to what is going wrong.
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Stoik_Video_Capture

I downloaded STOIK and am using it now. I will let you know the results.

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