Is there a better way?

[davy19]

Ok I got the whole procedures down for making vcd's and svcd's, but the process just takes way too long for good quality.

I have oever 300 vhs tapes I would like to convert, but it is taking an average of 7-9 hours to do each one, at this rate I will be here forever.

Currently I am using a WIN TV Go card. If I were to go out and buy a hardware card with MPEG 1 or MPEG 2, will that help things go faster?

What is the advantage? Or is there software that is faster then TMPGEnc?


Last question, I read all the reveiws on most of the cards, and it does not seem like any one card is great, all the reveiews are like 50/50. Is there any card, that is just so good out there even if it cost me $300-$400?

Thanks

[KingJohn]

Perhaps you should store them as AVI for now, until such time things improve I have also a large collection, but have put off any type of storage for now.

Have you tried the mpeg 1 capture program with your card ? NonoDVR
http://www.hauppauge.de/nanodvr.htm

[davy19]

Thanks KingJohn I did not know about that program.

I will try it later tonight.


I think storing my movies on AVI would be out of question since I only have a 80gb drive, and I have just one movie taking up 10 gb of space in avi right now.

[KingJohn]

Yes but you could copy the AVI's to a data disk, ready for reprocessing when the time comes Well perhaps not, but with all the DVD writers coming down in price, and maybe a standard emerging, perhaps its not the time to think about the conversion.

I can see a Philips standard alone DVD writer at £500 now, you could record them on that in real time, and perhaps rip them later if necessary