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  1. Hi !

    I try to capture video from my old VHS tapes. I use EasyCap.
    Everything is OK, but there's one problem : a 10 seconds video is approximately 100MB.
    I've tried encoding with different codecs, but the best is Huffyuv (v2.1.1). I use DScaler software, which is also good.
    There was a problem while capturing(the video was black and white), but DScaler solved the problem quite easily.
    It remains me to find a light codec, which will allow me to capture from VHS 2 hours without having a break, I beware of my hard disk.

    I want good quality and small size of video.

    What codec to use?
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    Depends on what you mean by "the best." If you want high-speed real-time capture compression and zero data loss, you're already using the best. A 2-hour VHS capture would be about 40 to 60 GB compressed, average. You can use VirtualDub to break that into smaller 4-GB chunks, recompress with Lagarith (lossless compressor, but a little too slow for capture), and burn the chunks to disc. For many, these are standard procedures.

    You can also get fan-cooled external HDD enclosures and extra drives. Try Newegg or TigerDirect.
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817173042
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  3. For lossless and near lossless compression there's also UT Video Codec and the Fraps codec. Those are comparable in speed to HuffYUV and deliver a little more compression There's also a multithreaded version HuffYUV which is even faster than the old single threaded HuffYUV.

    For more compression you can use a DV encoder (the source must be 720x480 29.97 fps or 720x576 25 fps). That will give you high quality (but not lossless compression) at about 13 GB/hr. And various MJPEG encoders where you can select the amount of compression. But the quality decreases as you compress more.
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