Hiya and a Happy New Year to you all
The old VCR has finally been laid to rest, well, not quite......
Now we have the new, all singing and dancing PVR (Thanx to Santa), all those video tapes that have taken over my side unit over the years can now be replaced with, er, something else....DVD's come to mind!
Before I finally lay them to rest (in the big wheelie bin), there are quite a few I would like to back up to DVD.
I've had a little play today, but I'm struggling to match the quality of the original tape, that's if you can call it quality.
I have Ulead DVD Movie Factory V4 and Virtualdub at my disposal.
Virtualdub won't allow me to capture at 720x576 Pal as it throws up an error "418 unsupported format"
I'm using the Huffyuv 2.2.0 codec for compression, but it seems in order to capture in AVI format you need an awful amount of HDD space. 30GB would only give me about 20mins playing time according to Ulead DVDMF4?
I've quite a few children's sing-a-long videos, lasting about 45mins each and would like to to put at least 2 onto 1 DVD, possibly 3.
I can't understand why an avi would take up so much space when compared to the quality of a DVD movie of around 4.37GB ?
Please could someone be kind enough to give me a few pointers in capturing at high qulity (or at least to match the original) and also re-encoding to fit onto DVD.
I have, at present, just 30GB to play with, with a possible 80GB or so once I've cleared off a few movies
Thanx
The old VCR has finally been laid to rest, well, not quite......
Now we have the new, all singing and dancing PVR (Thanx to Santa), all those video tapes that have taken over my side unit over the years can now be replaced with, er, something else....DVD's come to mind!
Before I finally lay them to rest (in the big wheelie bin), there are quite a few I would like to back up to DVD.
I've had a little play today, but I'm struggling to match the quality of the original tape, that's if you can call it quality.
I have Ulead DVD Movie Factory V4 and Virtualdub at my disposal.
Virtualdub won't allow me to capture at 720x576 Pal as it throws up an error "418 unsupported format"
I'm using the Huffyuv 2.2.0 codec for compression, but it seems in order to capture in AVI format you need an awful amount of HDD space. 30GB would only give me about 20mins playing time according to Ulead DVDMF4?
I've quite a few children's sing-a-long videos, lasting about 45mins each and would like to to put at least 2 onto 1 DVD, possibly 3.
I can't understand why an avi would take up so much space when compared to the quality of a DVD movie of around 4.37GB ?
Please could someone be kind enough to give me a few pointers in capturing at high qulity (or at least to match the original) and also re-encoding to fit onto DVD.
I have, at present, just 30GB to play with, with a possible 80GB or so once I've cleared off a few movies
Thanx