Converting New Zealand PAL VHS to DVD - help appreciated

[Zippity]

Are there any New Zealanders viewing this forum who have successfully coverted VHS (PAL format) to DVD?

I have downloaded, printed and read many of the FAQ's and "How to" articles, but no matter what I do, everything turns to custard

A brick to the head may help

I'm using a WinFast TV 2000 XP Expert Tuner/Video card.

[teegee420]

Describe your work process. At what point do your efforts fail? It's kind of hard to diagnose the problem when so little information is given.

[Sifaga]

Hey Zippity,

have you captured your VHS to your computer yet, do you have a mpg file ?

if so whats it look like

[regular8mm]

Nero 6 has format selections for every TV style on the planet!! I use NTSC but there is a HUGE list of other types under it. If you have captured TV Nero will encode it for you.
I use it with a PIKA ONE 8X dual DVD. Brag: Just burnt a full DVD in under 12 minutes onto Datawrite Classec DVD+R 8X. See
www.datawrite.co.uk
They cost less than 68 pence each for 25 tubes here;
http://ukdvdr.co.uk/acatalog/DVD_R.html

[mikesbytes]

NZ TV uses NICAM for the HiFi Stereo, but apart from that NZ uses bog standard PAL. The only difference in a NZ VCR is that it supports receiving NICAM.

As you are outputting from the VHS tape, it is 100% bog standard PAL.

Follow the guides on this site.

[drRocket]

A) What platform

B) How much are you converting.

If you have a lot of media a stand alone DVD Recorder is probably best.

Otherwise you need a decent capture card, a hell of a lot of HD space and a lot of time.

I've personally been doing a lot of this under Linux quite easily, but it wouldn't suit the average windows user.