divx --> vhs --> avi

[86peaches]

i got a vhs off a friend (who needs a new burner) which had been recorded from a downloaded file through a graphics card output.

i now want to record the vhs to my HD using my AIW 8500. the original file spec was vcd (encoded into divx) and i need to know what settings to use to capture back from vhs, whether into .avi or .mpg with the best quality for a vcd.

i don't know how the final capture will look, good or bad or whatever, but i'm desperate to get it onto vcd.

[crahak]

Wow. WHY would you even consider that?? VCD's look bad enough I find. (you don't seem to know for sure if he got it in divx or VCD anyways). DivX looks ok, but taped onto VHS looks not so great. Captured back will only look worse. Then recompressed again to VCD? Oh gawd. Spare me that. I would not even be cruel enough to force my dog to watch something that awful. No offense, but VHS is already bad enough.

[86peaches]

it was in divx but the res and all that the same as vcd. i know it's not going to very good quality, but i desperately need to get it onto vcd - don't worry about how bad it is though, i won't personally have to watch it. i juts need it on vcd that's all. i don't care about quality that much, i was just wondering if there were any particular settings to use that could limit the damage, if you know what i mean.

[vhelp]

morning all.

86peaches,
man, if you're dat desporate, you got problems. as crahak said it
all... it's crap, and you wanna take that same crap and re-capture it?
YOU BETTER go out and just buy the damn VHS then, cause at least you'll
get BETTER quality than you would if you re-capture the crap that's already
ben made crap and recorded TO crap. wow.

Come on... at $5.99 or less, you could buy the VHS tape of the movie and
get a first-time great capture (well, in comparison to the divX above) and
get a better VCD out of it. You are already going the capture route.
Where's you logic. You can't be that cheap? ...can you? You can't be THAT
desporate to go the crap route? ...can you? Come on, get the VHS and
do it that way, trust me (and yourself) it will be MUCH better that way, and
you can impress whoever you are trying - kiling two birds w/ one stone.

Course, this could all be from a camcorder of a PERSONAL nature
and that for obvious reasons would be why you need to go the route you
intend to go. But, if its just a movie that you can go out and purchase on
VHS, i'd go and buy it.

-vhelp

[crahak]

Well, here, I can rent DVDs for about a dollar with tax. (most of them anyways, unless they're really new, in which case it's like 3$) vhelp is right. That would look billion times better. Mind you, I do compress most my stuff as DivX myself. I stick to XSVCD's for short episodes and such. Good luck anyways.