Digital to VHS: How Can I Do It?

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[Skiller]

The easiest is make a DVD, play it in any DVD-player connected to any VCR, hit record on the VCR.

To make the DVD, for beginners, AVStoDVD is recommended.

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[jagabo]

Yes, you can do anything you could do with any other composite video source. The hard part is finding a DVD player with composite output and a working VHS deck.

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[dellsam34]

Considering the amount of time it takes to burn a DVD, discs wasted, and the quality loss the whole process will incur because of the shitty mpeg-2 compression, it is better to record from the captured file using a media player with a HDD or flash drive and connect directly to the VCR using analog outputs on the media player. play the file and hit record on the VCR, that simple.

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[dellsam34]

What format the files you are trying to record?

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[jagabo]

You don't need a CRT. Though having something to monitor the video is helpful. If you use an HDMI to composite converter with HDMI passthru (or an HDMI splitter) you can use any HDMI display to monitor the video. Beware that cheap converters may not deliver great quality.

The easiest option is to get a media player with HDMI and composite output.

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[dellsam34]

Windows is never good at delivering a full 4:3 frame, you will always have weird aspect ratio, black border or other problems, But it all depends on your computer HDMI driver and the HDMI converter you get, If you have problems the media player route is the way to go.

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[dellsam34]

Windows is never good at delivering a full 4:3 frame, you will always have weird aspect ratio, black border or other problems, But it all depends on your computer HDMI driver and the HDMI converter you get, If you have problems the media player route is the way to go.

I don't think the media player will support all the files I would like to play, so if possible I'd try and figure out a solution to the AR issue instead of having to transcode files every time I want to transfer.

It depends on how much you want to spend on a media player, I have one from 2010 that can playback any file type up to 1080, 60p. The problem nowadays will not be the media types, but rather a media player with analog outputs. The other problem is that with files in widescreen there will be compromises, crop the sides or have black bars on top and bottom (letterboxing), squeezing is not wise, unless viewed on a widescreen TV by stretching horizontally restoring the original aspect ratio (called anamorphic).

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