Laserdisc question!!

[Mauserman]

Ok, this is probably a stupid question, laugh if you want.

Is there ANY way to copy a laserdisc movie onto a dvd-r media using your computer?

[tgpo]

Yeah, people do it all the time. All you have to do is capture the video/audio output signal from the player and author as a DVD. I have my VCR hooked up to my computer and capture from that all the time. Same concept, different player.

[Mauserman]

Yeah, people do it all the time. All you have to do is capture the video/audio output signal from the player and author as a DVD. I have my VCR hooked up to my computer and capture from that all the time. Same concept, different player.

Thanks for your quick answer, i forgot one question though. let's say the laserdisc is pal and the dvd-r copy should be in ntsc, is it still possible?

[tgpo]

.......then that's gonna add a whole new layer to it. I guess you'd have to capture using PAL settings, then convert your pal movie to ntsc using ffmpegX, and author to a DVD.

[Mauserman]

ok!

Thanks for the good info.

[AntnyMD]

Why can't you just make a PAL DVD from your PAL laser disc? I've yet to see a DVD player that couldnt play both.

[tgpo]

I've yet to see a DVD player that couldnt play both.

And what about TVs??

[AntnyMD]

And what about TVs??

A good question. I'm perplexed by people who will spend hundreds of dollars on Xbox, PS2, the finest DVD player, a pricey Apple computer -- yet refuse to spend $300 on a good television made in the last 5 - 10 years.

[geek rock]

some laserdisc players will play back PAL discs and convert them to NTSC (and vice versa) on-the-fly. i have a couple of old PAL VHS tapes of NTSC laserdiscs somewhere..

if you have the capturing software to capture in PAL and NTSC, i'd go for the original format.. that is, if your DVD player will ALSO convert PAL to NTSC / vice versa on-the-fly.

-Mark

[Riot Nrrrd]

.......then that's gonna add a whole new layer to it. I guess you'd have to capture using PAL settings, then convert your PAL movie to NTSC using ffmpegX, and author to a DVD.

Can someone tell me (soon! Leaving on a plane tomorrow) how to do this???

I have a multiple-disc PAL SVCD set that I want to convert to a single DVD-R disc ... I followed Wizeman's excellent tutorial on how to do it using ffmpegX and the 2 Sizzle command-line tools, but the resulting DVD-R image wouldn't play in DVD Player

VLC can play the individual VOB files, but that's not optimal. DVD Player played the audio OK, but the video came out really weird, half-shifted-over (and wrapped horizontally) with blocks of video/black interspersed (kinda hard to describe), which I'm guessing might have been caused by my generating the DVD-R image from a PAL SVCD source (but why wouldn't DVD Player be able to play anything, NTSC or PAL or SECAM?).

Anyway, I suppose I could've screwed something else up, but I figured I should at least test out converting it to NTSC first and see whether DVD Player (and my Toshiba SD-3109 - which, btw AntnyMD, explicitly states in the manual that it can only play NTSC) can play it or not ...

If someone could take Wizeman's tutorial and tell me where - and how - in the steps to do the PAL -> NTSC conversion in ffmpegX, I'd be very grateful ...

[freakyalbino]

i know what ur talkn about, i think it means u gotta deinterlace it.

[Riot Nrrrd]

i know what ur talkn about, i think it means u gotta deinterlace it.

How do I do that? Do I just add the checkbox to Deinterlace in the mpeg2enc options of ffmpegX (in the Options tab) before I run any (or all?) of the steps in Wizeman's tutorial?

[spiderman2k1]

Well if your on the MAC you will need some kind of capture card. There is a Holly wood bridge made by Dazzle it cap AVI files very very large file's then you will have to encode down to mpeg2 there is a real time capture card for the MAC that's only MPEG1. i find the PC is much better for these thing's I use a Dazzle 2 pci card some people use the PVR 250 or 350 or ati and just cap MPEg 2 DVD then burn the file. I like to set bitrate as very high at 8000 CBR my file's are most often over 4.3 gig more like 5 or 6 gig's I then use DVD2one to make it fit on one DVD-R. There are thing's PC's are better at there are thing's MAC's are better at there are thng Linux's is better at and there is thing's UNIX's is better at.

[MichaelLAX]

I use the ADS Technologies USB Instant DVD for Mac connected to my Pioneer Laserdisc player to convert 12" Laserdiscs to DVD.

The ADS box converts to MPEG-2 in realtime with PixeDV software, which allows for "trimming" of the extraneous video before, after and in the flip of the discs (be sure to feed a video signal into the input of the Laserdisc player; otherwise on the disc flip the digitizer will go into a noisy, artifact mode that it will probably not recover from once the 2nd side starts to play).

It then has Capty DVD authoring software to make the DVD and include chapter points.

My copies of "That's Entertainment" and "That's Entertainment II" came over in excellent video quality, and the Dolby Surround (4.0) audio made it over as well.