Laserdisc extraction ??

[genan2k]

Hello, is there a way to pull data off a laserdisc and transfer it to DVD ?
Thanx

[SLK001]

Yes. Use any TV capture card, then encode with your favorite encoder, author the DVD then burn.

(I get the feeling that you believe that a laserdisk is a digital format, and you want to just "rip" the thing. A laserdisk is a PURELY ANALOG format, and has to be captured as an analog source.)

[rijir2001]

Correct me if I'm wrong. But isn't the video on a LD analog while the audio is digital? Not that you can rip the audio digitally. But, just for clarification.

Russ

[coops75]

You may want to invest $199 for the canopus advc 50. This card digitizes analog video and maintains audio synch perfectly. I have 80 laserdiscs and have used this with several that are not available on dvd. Not dvd quality, but good. The avi can then be re-edited, authored, encoded and burned.

[SLK001]

Correct me if I'm wrong. But isn't the video on a LD analog while the audio is digital? Not that you can rip the audio digitally. But, just for clarification.

Some of the audio is analog and some CAN be digital. NTSC disks always had an analog channel. Some also had some form of Digital Dolby.

What I meant about the purely analog statement was that the video is 100% analog (my bad for not clarifying this).

[genan2k]

ok, so via a video card capture, will the quality still be better than VHS?
thanx guys

[rijir2001]

Yes the quality will be better than VHS. Use an s-video cable if at all possible. It makes a difference.

Russ

[thxkid]

1st the analog video of Laserdisc is 425 Lines of Resolution so it would be best to capture as 480x480 or higher for best quality and the Audio is digital on all discs pressed since 1994. To play the digital audio you must have a Laser Disc player that will play digital audio, and no, the AC-3(aka Dolby Digital) is recorded on the left side of the analog track while the right side has the analog sound track, or directors audio commentary.
best if you can use the S-video to capture the laser disc. The quality of players are from OK your sub $300 decks to great your $700 of higher decks at then prices, Pioneer was about the best I owned and tried about every brand out there, Sony is not bad either, I got at that time the best they ever made a 900 series Pioneer with Dual side playback and AC-3 decoder with coxial output for dolby digital. I record directly to a Panasonic DMR-E20 DVD recorder and they look great. I still have about 125 left in a collection that numbered over 500 at one time, there are Laser discs out there you can't get on DVD like these I have.

Disney
Aladdin
Lion King - Box set
Beauty and the Beast
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Stars Triolgy defintive collection
Cinderella - box set
12:01
Quartermaster and the Pit
Larger than life
Anne of green gables
Anne of Avonlee
Wiley Coyote and Roadrunner complete collection unedited
Mickey Mouse B/W collection limited to 5,000 box sets
THX Lucas Demo disc limited to under 500
But I see your point of dubbing to DVD-R or VCD, those 12 inch discs are hard to store and very easy to warp, lets no even get into Laser Rot.