How do you guys transfer vhs movies to dvd?

[mmmipa]

Im having trouble converting vhs to dvd.I have a Archos player that I hook up to my vcr and record onto and the file would be a avi file.Then I would convert the avi file to vob file with convertXtodvd and then use Nero to burn it.They come out pixilated and the dubbing is off.Is there another program I can use to convert the avi file so that the dubbing is good?Any help would be appreciated.




Thanks
Sean

[Vidd]

If you are really serious about transferring VHS to DVD, I would suggest using a DVD Recorder standalone, a PC capture card, or a DV Bridge. They should give much better results. You don't want to capture, compress with mpeg4, and then compress to mpeg-2.

If your only option is the Archos, then a higher quality solution would be:

Use AviSynth to frameserve into HC and encode to MPEG-2.
Export the audio as a WAV from the avi using VirtualDub.
Compress the audio with tooLame.
Use MuxMan to author.
Burn with ImgBurn.

The above is all free software.

[mmmipa]

Thanks Vidd,thats all greek to me but im gonna try it sunday.




Sean

[hudsonf]

I would suggest
1. http://www.adstech.com/products/USBAV-709-EF/intro/USBAV-709_intro.asp?pid=USBAV-709-EF
2. http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/prods_pvr.html

[Dash1]

If you are really serious about transferring VHS to DVD, I would suggest using a DVD Recorder standalone, a PC capture card, or a DV Bridge. They should give much better results. You don't want to capture, compress with mpeg4, and then compress to mpeg-2.


The above is all free software.

Can you be more specific ? Which mathod is better ?
What kind of standalone DVD recorder ? DV bridge ?

[stars]

I would prefer a DV bridge and it could be a canopus advc110 its about 200-300 EUR.

You connect the VHS, video8 or what ever to the box and the picture and sound will be converted
to DV format in real time, well you must have a firewire connection in you computer.

The source will approx have approx 25Mbit/s, and it will not get better than this.

The source will be in a .avi container and can be edited with Virutaldub.
you can use windv , dvio or microsofts movie maker to capture the movie. windv is prefered.

Panasonic dv codec must be installed to open the .avi file in virtualdub..

well this is only the begining....

do a search on the site...

stars....