audio cassette to dvd

[victoriabears]

If I were to consider using a dvd recorder to simply preserve my audio tapes , would this work, and what lnegth?, 6 hours? I realise the ubiquitious mp3 option is not possible,but if I were later to become more sophisticated with the resuting dvd's, then thats fine.

My computers are so tied up with video projects you see that tape deck to pc is not really an option for some time.

Thanks

[hech54]

As long as the DVD Recorder has a video signal to go with the audio...I don't see why it would not work. Some recorders have the option to choose audio inputs.....mine does at least. Point your video camera at the wall...use it as your source and attach the tape deck to the audio input.
Check the manual on your recorder for which audio format it records in. Usually it is AC3 @48000. AC3 as we all know is the video equivalent of MP3 and normal audio CD are 44.1 not 48 so you may have some conversion to do later if you decide to put these recordings to audio CD.

[bobkart]

For the best quality you would like to be able to use LPCM audio (uncompressed). But most DVD Recorders only let you use LPCM audio when using the maximum video bitrate. So you'd only get one hour or so on each DVD. If you're okay with AC3 then you can get upwards of 6 hours on a DVD. Some do not even need a video input, and in fact they get well over 6 hours on a DVD as a result of not having any video to encode (black screen).