VCR tape to DVD

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Tim Wunder wrote:
> On 3/5/2003 12:51 PM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
> > On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Tim Wunder wrote:
> >
> >>On 3/5/2003 9:25 AM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Tim Wunder wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Yes, more details would be good.
> >>>>BTW, How much video (time) can be written to VCD?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>That entirely depends on the quality of the video (both sound & audio),
> >>>plus the size (resolution) of the picture.
> >>>
> >>
> >>Well, can you give me something like:
> >>High quality=X minutes
> >>Medium quality=Y minutes
> >>Low quality=Z minutes
> >
> >
> > Its more than just the quality, the resolution of the picture is also
> > important.  I honestly don't know the formula off the top of my head, i'd
> > have to Google for it.  I just do know that this isn't a black & white
> > thing, there are many shades of gray.
> >
>
> OK, I didn't have much success googling last night, but didn't try real
> hard. My brother has some VHS tapes he wants to convert to digital and
> I'm trying to determine if he can do it with his CD burner, or if it's
> worth invsting in a DVD burner for the PC (and associated
> hardware/software), or if he should by a DVD-RW deck (at around $500),
> or if he should wait 6 months...

Oh, there's no need for a DVD burner to create VCDs.  That kinda defeats
the entire purpose of VCDs, in that you can burn a decent quality movie to
a normal CDRW.  You can prolly get a moderate quality 2hr movie at 720x300
on a single 700MB CD in VCD format.

You might want to check the MPlayer-users mailing list archives (you can
search them too, see the website).  This kinda thing comes up fairly often
there, and there are alot of folks who provide good nuggets on encoding
movies.

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