Re: Taping from VCR machine
- From: "CSM1" <nomoremail@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:20:21 GMT
The lowest quality is feeding the VCR to Media Center via Channel 3 or 4 RF.
If you must, you will have to go through the tuner setup again and select a
set top box so that you can use the S-Video or Composite Video input.
The file would show that you tuned to channel 3 or 4 because that is the
channel the VCR's output RF is located.
Media center is not the best way to transfer VHS tapes to DVD.
There are stand alone DVD recorders with VHS tape playback/record available
that is the simplest way, to record a VHS tape to a DVD.
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"pj1357" <pj1357@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If the vcr is hookup up as a stand alone directly to the pc then why would
the file read what was playing on channel 3 or 4? Or am I missing
something
here? I am trying to record my vhs's to DVD using the media center also.
I
have not set up the tv tuner though. Do I have to run the vcr through the
tv? Should I use an S Video line or audio video cables to connect the vhs
or
should I just record the vhs through the tv then in that case I would have
to
use a splitter and connect the tv cable line then set up the tuner. Very
confused here!
Thank you,
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pj1357
"xiowan" wrote:
Hi James:
I'm not a computer expert, but I was able to simply hook the vcr up
to
the media center computer inputs and in the media center window with live
tv
playing, select the output channel that is playing on the vcr before you
want to record. Then select play on the vcr to send the tape to the
media
center and just hit record on the media center remote. My recordings
are on
Super VHS tapes and using S-video out and audio out to the computer, the
recordings came out fine. I then recorded them to dvd disks from the
media
center window for storage. The only problem you would have would be they
would probably show up on your media center files as whatever show was
playing on channel 3 or 4 (whichever is selected on the back of the vcr.)
This isn't a high tech solution, but sure is a simple one and worked
fine to
archive tapes to a DVD disk.
xiowan in tucson
"Barry Watzman" wrote:
If at all possible, locate a Sony Digital-8 camcorder with
"pass-through" A-to-D conversion (most of the Digital-8 camcorders have
this, if they will play back analog Hi-8 tapes). Setup the Digital-8
camcorder to use this (see the camcorder manual).
Connect the analog source (a VCR playing the tape to be converted) to
the camcorder input (use S-Video if you have it, otherwise composite,
and sound).
Connect the camcorder to the computer using a firewire port. You may
have to install a driver for the camcorder onto the computer (this
comes
with the camcorder if it's required, it should also be downloadable
(e.g. from the Sony web site)).
Do the "capture" outside of Media Center, under the Windows XP desktop
using any suitable vide capture product. Examples are Pinnacle Studio,
DVD Movie Factory, or any of the products by Pinnacle, MGI, Roxio,
U-Lead, etc. However, you can also use Windows Movie Maker 2, which is
a Microsoft free download for Windows XP and which is normally
installed
as part of Service Pack 2. You will be capturing to uncompressed AVI
files, which are huge (about 12-14 gigabytes per hour) so have plenty
of
disk space. These are very generic files and almost any video editing
program can work with them or burn them to a video DVD.
James E wrote:
Just got my Merdia center
I have a huge number of VCR Taps of my Grand Kids
How would I copy them onto the computer???
.
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