Best Way to capture VHS and Convert to SVCD

[mickeyace]

I want transfer a bunch of older VHS tapes I have to SVCD. I want to know the best way to go about this. I bought a Dazzle100 but it seems to have a lot of problems. While captureing it will hang up and stop capturing. Sometimes its 5mins sometimes 1 hour. If you think the dazzle will work maybe someone knows what is wrong with it. Will the Dazzle software give me a good quality SVCD. I have been using DVD2SVCD to backup my dvds and it works fantastic. I would like to try and get close to that quality. Any help would be great.

[Bondiablo]

Go take a look at the Capture Cards section of this site. For the best quality consider getting a Canopus ADVC-100.

If you go that route virtually any capture software (except virtualdub) will work then convert to MPEG with TMPGEnc.

[willy_annand]

Also check out the Winnov cards. The Videum 1000 series are awesome, and audio sync is guaranteed.

I have tried the Radion line (junk in my opinion) too fuzzy.
ASUS cards with video in, excellent capture, but some audio sync issues unless you have a fast machine.

and the Winnov Videum Av and 1000. The AV is not bad (640x480@15fps ok, 640x480@30fps drops frames big time), but the 1000 is amazing, 640x480@30fps with 5 frames dropped in 2 hours and excellent quality.