RE: Encoding Videos

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks for these timely tips...

Timely because I now need to revisit this, since having ordered a ***king
expensive designer fireplace at the Ideal Home show on Tuesday, I am going
to have to "lose" all my Trek VHS tapes from the living room, as
that is
where the new fireplace needs to go...

I'm going to replace as many as I can with DVD's, but the Voyager stuff
isn't all released on DVD yet, so I'd like to vidcap the tapes to my
jukebox
server...

I feel an order for a couple more 120GB drives coming on... :-)

Paul G.







>From: Frost Neil <Neil.Frost@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: "'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'" <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Encoding Videos
>Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 11:32:34 +0100
>
>Thanks Doogie,
>
>Will have a look at software.
>
>I mainly want to get rid of the multitude of kids videos that are stack
in
>the lounge, and a few of the videos that SWMBO keeps buying instead of
DVDs
>(Grrrr)
>
>Thanks again
>
>Neil
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Doogie Brodie [mailto:ukhad@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: 03 April 2003 11:24
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>
>Frost Neil wrote:
>
> > I think I remember someone saying that they had copied videos
(not
> > DVD's, the old fashioned things with tape and stuff) to their
servers.
> >
> > What encoding process did you use, and what software?
>
>I've been doing a reasonable amount of VHS capturing to put onto DVD,
but
>you can encode in something to keep on the server if you want.
>
>Hardware:-
>
>ATI Radeon 8500DV
>Athlon 2000 XP
>1GB RAM
>4 120GB drives (2 RAID 0 arrays) - you don't need this much space, I
just
>need to have things at a variety of stages... :-)
>
>Software:-
>
>VirtualDub - Required
>PicVideo MPEG codec - Depends on your processing Various VirtualDub
filters
>- Depends on video Goldwave - Depends on video TMPGEnc - Depends on
your
>output
>
>Process:-
>
>Capture mode in VirtualDub, using PicVideo as the encoder - you can use
>Huffyuv but it gives even bigger files..... pretty sure it'll encode
direct
>to DivX for you though if you've got enough grunt under the hood.
>
>Due to quality of my video sources, a long filter chain in VirtualDub
to
>cleanup the source (15 year old cartoons) - you may find not necessary
>
>Due to quality of my video sources, audio de-hiss in Goldwave, saving
the
>audio track as a WAV file
>
>Encoding the processed AVI and the processed WAV file into MPEG-2 for
DVD
>
>Obviously depending on the quality of your source, and how you want to
>store
>them (Mpeg, DivX, PicVideo, Huffyuv) will depend on exactly what you do
>where.
>
>I messed around for _ages_ to get the process right from VHS to a
pretty
>DVD
>all menu'd up etc, including buying a standards converting time base
>corrector, due to the poor quality of some of the tapes, reading up on
>filter chains, experimenting with various combinations etc. It's now in
a
>state where SWMBO does the processing herself and only asks me for help
if
>she gets _really_ stuck.....! :-)
>
>Best place to read up on stuff is www.dvdrhelp.com, loads of articles
about
>different sorts of capturing, processing etc.
>
>Let me know if I can be of any more help... :D
>
>--
>
>Doogie
>
>
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