High quality dvd's from vhs?

I am trying to archive old vhs tapes but the end result using WinDVD creater is rather poor. I like the almost real time conversion but the dvd quality is much worse than the original. Any suggestions. I did make a high quality dvd by capturing the video as an uncompressed avi file...then using a good software encoder like tmpg but that process took hours for just one tape.

 

I have generally found video editing to take a long time to encode (and a lot of work ) esp when you want a high quality. I can't really give you any tips. Good luck in you long conversions.

 

You can't really increase the resolution form VHS.

 

I use a Hauppauge PVR USB2 card and it does pretty good. It has on board MPEG2 compression and does it in real time. Having a dedicated MPEG Processor I think helps the video quality.

 

I would suggest using a GOOD quality VHS player (the best you can find) and an S-Video connection to the capture card. Other than that, it's going to be garbage in, garbage out.

-Lee

 

Actually, the S-video connection won't help or even be available on a standard VHS deck, but I agree you need the best source possible for best results.

 

I didn't think it would be all that uncommon in anything other than the bottom-of-the-barrel players in the last few years, but I guess there aren't that many VCRs still out there now that I do a couple of searches. There are few w/ S-video, though, like this one - http://www.dealtime.com/xPF-JVC_HR_S5902U_HR_S5912U

Newz, if you're just doing a straight copy, and you have a bunch to do, you may also consider a VHS/DVD Recorder combo, like the one reviewed here -
http://www.hometheatermag.com/discplayers/505panasonic/

-Lee

 

i find that having a good graphics card helps alot when playing, endoding, or working with video in general. i would recomend a good vhs player, s-video to your capture card and a good encoding program, such as nero. other then that it is impossible to display quality that isnt there already