I'm wondering if anyone can help me convert some VHS tapes to DVD. I have my VCR connected to the TV capture card in my computer, so I can play the VHS tape and capture it on my computer, but I'm having trouble with the settings. Whenever I capture it in .avi it ends up being too big for a DVD. Should I be capturing to another file format (compressed), or can I use DVD Shrink? Any help would be greatly appreciated. OK - here's the USMNT content: I have a bunch of WC94 games on VHS (among other things - WC98, Euro2000, etc.) that I'd like to convert to DVD. When/if I manage to figure this out, I'd be more than happy to circulate these. Thanks, Matt
I had the same problem. The software that I have does not support dual layer dvd writers. I assume you have a dual layer dvd writer. Write the movie file (as a dvd image) to your hard disk, not to a dvd disk Use a separate burner program to write the dvd image to a dvd disk
First of all, you will need to change the setting so that it captures to MPEG-2 file and not AVI. MPEG-2 will be recognized by your DVD player, not likely that it recognizes AVI. Now the video file you capture will always be higher than 4.7GB for a game, depending if you capture at DVD quality (above 5000kbps). So you will always need a program to author your DVD, create menus, cut the commercials,ect...once you are satisfied you will have to create your DVD content and burn on a DVD. If the DVD content (Video_TS) doesn' fit on a DVD+R, you can use DVDShrink to compress the files so they can fit some good websites http://www.digitalfaq.com/dvdguides/capture/intro.htm http://www.dvd-guides.com/ http://www.videohelp.com/
Use winavi to convert from avi to mpeg2. Believe me, it took me forever to figure all this stuff out.
The only thing is, you lose quality when you convert from one type to another. It is better if he captured to MPG instead.