?? Videos from Vhs tape ????

[mol3000]

i have a computer and vcr... i also have a tv in and out card.... so what else do i need to get a music video off of vhs ??????

[darkelf]

first off, what kind of card?

Generally most Hauppage(sp?), ATI, nad STB TV cards work fine under Windows 9x, newer models work under Win2k too.

for most TV cards that offer capture ability you need the following:

VirtualDub
lots-'o-diskspace
Huffyuv 2.x codec *OR* Divx-4 codec
TMPGEnc v2.x

install hyffy codec, and divx codec

start up virtualdub, set the capture source to your TV card (FILE --> Capture / VIDEO --> Source...)
--under VIDEO --> Compression
-----select the compression method you would like to use (I use huffy, it's lossless but uses buttloads of diskspace.

capture the video (one of the function keys F6?)

hit ESC to stop capture when video is done.

crop out stuff at beginning and end of video you don't want to save

FILE --> SAVE AS --> Some file.avi

if you saved in huffy format, you can convert to MPEG2/Mpeg1-VCD using TMPEnc.

Hope this helps...

[mol3000]

the only thing is the only thing i no that its
a tv in and out card... but if its not a capture card do i need one of the ones that u use for capturing from video cameras

[mol3000]

how can i tell if its a capture card also ?????? and is there any external capture cards out there.... that will capture from a vcr and a video camera ???????? i had bough snappy a few years back... but i see that only capture pics..... from the video... can i modfy that in anyway to capture video also ??????

[BigBadBob]

go to http://www.belarc.com/Download.html and download Belarc Advisor. It is a free program that will tell you what hardware and softwre you have on your system.

[vhelp]

mol3000,

1 - you might have an audio card | check those two plugs colors, red/white? (Its an AUIDO)

2 - if one of the phone plugs is YELLOW, then it's an Video in

That usually is the order of things.
Audio = Red / White
Video = Yellow
. . .as in my wintv pci or my ati-tv wonder has the above.

If you find that you don't have an capture card, and you are STILL interested
in captuirng, etc. Then, you'll need to pick one up.

In any case, you'll need to decide on HOW you want to capture to:
* AVI
* or, Real-time mpeg1/2
* or, Hardware mpeg1/2 or MJPEG via AVI (still AVI format for mjpeg, but small AVI size)
.
.
. . .and, if its AVI or MJPEG, then you'll want to decide on what type of
encoding you want to do:
* MPEG 1 (VCD) (can be good quality)
* MPEG 2 (VCE / SVCD) (can be better quality)
* DivX (whatever) (can be crap or better), but can't be burned to CD directly.
* other (PC)

Use the search button at the top for to find out more on these items and
also check the links to your left. That's what they are there for.

[mol3000]

i think i do use a caputure card... i wrote a lot of shh down then tried to go to the place where bob say go... and it erase all my message.. anyway it got a cam input and a svideo lookin input that says video and the yellow hole on the same card... and on my video card it has the red hole and a svideo lookin hole but dont say nothing on it... also i got both of these from a computer show about a year ago and didnt get the right drivers for them... but down below is all that said about my cmoputer Closed Caption Decoder


Gameport Joystick (no joystick connected)
NABTS/FEC VBI Codec
VIA PCI Audio Controller (WDM)
WaveTop (TM) NABTS/CC VBI Codec
Communications Other Devices
Alcatel SpeedTouch(tm) USB ADSL PPPoA
Intel EtherExpress 16 or 16TP ISA
TV Data Adapter
Network Card MAC Address: 00:AA:00:5C:6D:00

[mol3000]

ANYONE ANYONE....