Capturing 2 Hours Of Video&Audio From VHS Tape

[F1118]

I'm capturing 2 hours of A/V from a VHS Tape. In the end I want to burn this as a vcd so that it will play in my dvd player. What resolution and format should I capture in to get the smallest file size so that it will fit onto a cdr?

[SHS]

If can try 352x NTSC240, PAL288 if not try using 320 in place of 352
VCD are MPEG1 it best get TMPGenc

[FulciLives]

I'm capturing 2 hours of A/V from a VHS Tape. In the end I want to burn this as a vcd so that it will play in my dvd player. What resolution and format should I capture in to get the smallest file size so that it will fit onto a cdr?

Standard VCD is only 80 minutes. Standard VCD looks like shit. So 80 minutes is about the most you can do.

It is possible to get the whole thing on there but it would look worse than the VHS tape.

If you don't have a DVD burner you would be better off doing a SVCD (480x480) or a CVCD (352x480). Although then it will probably take 3 CD discs to look best though 2 might be possible with decent enough quality.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[fmctm1sw]

I'm capturing 2 hours of A/V from a VHS Tape. In the end I want to burn this as a vcd so that it will play in my dvd player. What resolution and format should I capture in to get the smallest file size so that it will fit onto a cdr?

Just curious, I see you have "Yes" under the DVDR line of your computer info. Do you have a DVD writer? As for VCD, I don't know if I agree with Fulci on the VCD loks like shit idea. I have a lot of them. I will agree with him on CVD though. I made CVD almost exclusively before I got my DVD writer. I'd figure out the length of the movie and determine what bitrate I needed to fill up two CDs. Worked great except for long movies. In that case I'd use three. What's more, since I used 48khz audio, they were already DVD compliant. Well, almost. Technically you need AC3 audio for DVD compliance but MP2 works on my player (and many others).