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| 133801 | 2003-04-07 04:24:00 | I was very interested in your remark about putting videos on CD but HOW....? Please explain as though I maybe an idiot....but i guess there are other idiots who would like to know too.. | olldaddy76 (2539) | ||
| 133802 | 2003-04-07 05:20:00 | You need a "video capture card", and TV cards usually have this added functionality. They have a "video in" socket as well as an Antenna input socket. So, if you play a videotape on your VCR, you connect the "video out" on the VCR to the "video in" on the TV card. You connect the "audio out" on the VCR to the "audio in" on the PC sound card input. The software that comes with the TV card will allow you to save any video and audio, either from the TV card itself or from the "Video in" and "audio in" connections. Play the tape, select the PC to "record" and you get a digital copy from the tape. You need plenty of hard drive space, and a reasonably fast PC to do it, but it works. You can then save the file to CD as a "Video Compact Disk" (VCD) and play it on a standard DVD player. The advantage over the tape is that tapes have a definite shelf life, they will suffer from the magnetic particles separating from the plastic ribbon. Something like 10 years? In digital form its probably OK for 100 years+ |
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| 133803 | 2003-04-07 09:45:00 | THANKS for the very lucid explanation....I hope it was of interest to many of us..... | olldaddy76 (2539) | ||
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