What Is A Good Free Software For Recording Vhs Movies?
Posted by benny in FreeWare on October 2nd, 2009 | 4 responses
What is a good free software for recording VHS movies on the computer and converting it into AVI format?
And is it true that if you burn AVI movies to a DVD-R, you can watch them on your DVD player? if so how many movies can you put in a standard DVD-R?
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A free one … good luck. You’ll probably get some weird answers for this … try them at your own risk.
There is a program out there that I use that does it with no trouble at all. It is called “ADS Tech – DVD Xpress. It comes with ULead DVD burning software and works really well. I got it at Wal-Mart a couple years ago for 60 bucks. It is a box for a encoder that will hook up to the back of your VCR through the RCA jacks … then hooks up to your computer with a USB cable. You can also hook it to your VCR with the S-VHS cable if your VCR supports that but the RCA jacks work just as well. Basically what it does is take the input from the RCA set up and converts it into either a MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 format and saves the file to the HD of your computer. The software is very easy to use and if you don’t want to mess with the settings you can get about 133 minutes of high quality stuff on a standard blank DVD. That is using the MPEG-2 which is the best one to use. Personally I do change the bitrates for the video and audio capture when I want to get more than the standard 133 minutes but I wouldn’t recommend doing that until you have run the thing for a while and are comfortable using it. I use this to copy DVDs also and there is not a protection scheme out there that can not be copied this way because since you are actually playing it in a DVD player it doesn’t kick in any of the protection that might be on the disk. The only draw back from that is that it is a “real time” recording meaning if the movie is 1 hour 42 minutes long it will take that same amount of time to copy it … HOWEVER … it does have an advantage over the “clone” programs. It gives you a straight DATA version of the movie that you can save to disk and burn to be played in a DVD player. If the one that plays in the DVD ever gets scratched or stops playing right you just pull out your data version, reload it onto your HD and then burn yourself a new DVD version.
Oh crap, I just looked back up at your question and see that you wanted to convert it to AVI format … DVD Xpress won’t do that … only to MPEG-1 & MPEG-2 formats … there are free programs at CNet that will convert it to AVI format however. Personally I’m not a fan of the AVI format, it is great to watch on a computer and great for downloading and such because of it’s compression ratios and smaller file size but you will notice it will take much longer to burn it to DVD because the burning software will have to convert it before it burns it. The first movie I ever burned was an AVI version of Ice Age and it took 21 hours to do the conversion and burning but burning DVDs is just like anything else with computers … you learn as you go. There is a somewhat newer format out there now called DivX. This is a great format and can be burned straight to disk and played in a DVD player but only if the DVD player is DivX compatible … they aren’t to hard to find and don’t really cost too much more than normal ones. I have friends who swear by the DivX format but then are always asking me questions about it and I usually don’t answer them because I told them in the beginning that they better know what they are doing before they do it and well … they didn’t listen … lol …
As for the type of DVD to use IE: DVD-R, DVD+R etc … that depends on the type of burner you have not the format of the file you are burning. Most of the newer burner drives are multi-format meaning that it really doesn’t matter what type of disk you use … they should all work on a standard DVD player.
Good luck and if you have other questions feel free to message me.
You may take a look at this guide, it’s about how to capture video from VHS to computer and burn to DVD, it works pretty well for mehttp://www.freedvdripper.net/how-to-capt…
Hope it helps. Contact me if you have any other question.
you will need a vcr and if you do not buy a vcr to pc unit then you will need a video card with video in, then you will need the right software to manipluate and copy it from the tape to a video format to fit onto DVD
A VCR