VHS to DVD Re visited

[scotty47]

I am new to trying to copy baby einstein VHS to DVD for my Grandaughter so as my son can play them in the van on a long trip, I have read through a thousand post to find out the easiest and best way to do this, I got cucusoft avi/mpeg converter pro which seemed to do a good job capturing the vhs, I tried there trial version of Mpeg to DVD burner and it left me with a coaster so I took the avi file and converted Mpeg using cucusoft avi to Mpeg then dvd shrink to vob and DVD santa to burn, great looking Video but the audio was out of sinc.
what would be my best way. Thanks in advance.........................scotty47

[Abond]

TMPG for avi to mpeg, dvdshrink to iso, dvddecrypter to burn.

[FulciLives]

What type of capture card do you have?

Model ... make ... etc.

The "best" capture program/method has a lot to do with the capture card that you have.

This is why I am asking.

Might be helpfull to fill out your computer specs.

Also note if you are doing NTSC or PAL format.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[on30trainman]

TMPG for avi to mpeg, dvdshrink to iso, dvddecrypter to burn.

What am I missing here? Is there a step missing here? I just downloaded and ran TMPG and got a m2v and mp2 file from my avi file. DVD Shrink can't open it - wants video_ts. Looked/looking into various guides for TMPG (so many of them) - is there a setting that I need to make to get the video_ts folder? Thanks.

[Xylob the Destroyer]

you will need to use an authoring program like TMPGEnc DVD Author to create your DVD files before you can use DVDShrink on it
TDA will create video_ts and audio_ts folders
once it's done, open DVDShrink and instead of picking a DVD drive, navigate to the video_ts folder (just select it, don't open it) and DVDShrink will know what to do

[Nelson9937955]

BTW, you mentioned you wanted the easiest way for vhs to dvd. The easiest is getting a dvd recorder and hooking your vcr to it. Alot of these are one button operations now adays.

[Xylob the Destroyer]

very true, but unless you're willing to drop some moola, the quality can be questionable

in about 10 minutes, I'm gonna dive into my ongoing VHS>DVD project

I capture with VirtualDub, then 'edit' with VirtualDub as well
then convert to m2v&wav with TMPGEnc
once that's done, I author with TMPGEnc DVD Author
if I feel like making/having menus, I burn with TDA as well
if i don't want/don't care about menus then I "rip" ("movie only") from the video_ts folder with DVDShrink and burn with DVD Decrypter

a "relatively" quick & easy process overall

[scotty47]

Thanks for the Replies Guys, FulciLives the info you were asking about:
Capture card: Aver DVD EZMaker,
Computer is HP Pavillion AMD Athlon 64 processor, iGB Ram, 160GB HD, Windows XP(service pack 1)
Copying NTSC Format.

Xylob the Destroyer, will give your proceedure a go.
Thanks again guys.............................scotty47

[BrainStorm69]

If VirtualDub doesn't give you the results you are looking for, VirtualVCR captures very well with the DVD EZmaker for me.

[FulciLives]

If VirtualDub doesn't give you the results you are looking for, VirtualVCR captures very well with the DVD EZmaker for me.

VirtualVCR is a good and free choice.

Another popular capture program that would work well is iuVCR.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[scotty47]

Thank you Brain Storm will give that a go.......................scotty47

[Xylob the Destroyer]

scotty...
you've got mail

[scotty47]

Thank you Xylob, I appreciate all your help...............scotty