Re: fyi: recording from video tape (VHS)

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On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 22:28, Donna. wrote:
> 
> Just in case everybody ever hoping to digitize from videotape has been scared
> off, it IS possible.  Off newer VCRs, fairly new recordings (within the last
> two years), I get almost as good quality as I do capturing from composite 
> off the antenna. 
> 

yup. my vcr is about 5-7 years old....although, still in good shape.

> A couple weeks ago, I captured two tapes, circa 1995-97, recorded on one of the
> scuzziest VCRs it's ever been my displeasure to own.  One of the movies had a 
> tracking problem on playback, didn't feel like opening the playback machine
> to tweak hardware for just one movie, so left in the line down at the bottom of
> the picture.  Both of them were mono, of course, since the original VCR was, 
> and the video was a little washed out, but otherwise they came through just 
> fine. No lost frames, no more sound leakage than I get on a good recording.
> 
> A couple months ago I did some tapes from about 1990-92, with the same capture
> results, only the video was better cuz they'd been done in a better VCR.
> 
> I'm doing this with a Pinnacle DC10+ (hardware compression)

ah...probabely a better capture card then mine.

> with lavrec from
> the mjpegtools v1.4.1. The relevant settings to lavrec are -d2 (decimation

just downloaded these tools ...after some minor dep problems (xforms,
jpeg-mmx, libmovtar)..got em installed. be my first time with them.

> 2, which produces frames 240x288, which give me better quality fullscreen playback
> than capturing at larger framesize) and -q100 (quality 100%).
> 
> Just in case that's useful to anybody ......
> 
> 
> Donna.
> pudge@xxxxxxxxxx 








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