anyone who of good VHS to DVD software and connection cables?

well I said it, I want to convert my old VHS library into DVD, but I lack the software, an cables to preform this operation on my laptop.

Any Ideas??

thanks in advance for the help,

Note* free is better for software, but I will pay for good software.

Thank again!

 

Notebooks don't have Video in ports (a simple cable cant help); therefore you will have to buy an external video capture device or a TV tuner with video capturing capability. Most capture (TV tuner) devices come bundled with decent recording software.

 

I remeber my Old toshiba had some software the had the option, but I don't know what the software was called...

isn't there anything that goes over USB or Firewire?

is there a way to use my built in HDMI?(I don't know if its output or input or both)


if not any suggestion for video capture devices/ what the previous poster has suggested?

thanks alot, sorry lots of question tring to get answers...

 

its easy... all you need is a old vhs camcorder. And all u'll need is a video out cable from the camcorder to the IEEE 1394 in ur laptop or pc.

If you cant get a old vhs camcorder then get any camcorder and dupe ur vhs movies to the blank media of the camcorder and then transfer via firewire/IEEE1394 to ur HD

 

Yes, using a camcorder is one option.

A video capture device is a unit that allows you to connect and view/record a video signal from an external video device such as a VCR/DVD Player, TV, Camcorder or a Game Console like XBOX/ PlayStation.

A TV tuner is a device that will allow you to watch notmal TV on your PC by connecting the antenna wire or the cable box. It basically converts your PC to a TV. Most TV tuners also support video capturing, therefore it is an extension to the basic video capturing device (like mentioned above) with an added TV tuner component.

External Video capture devices and TV tuners come in many different interfaces such as USB, Firewire, PCMCIA, Expresscard or even Ethernet.

external video devices and TV tuners at newegg : USB, Firewire, PCMCIA

 

http://video-editing-software-revie...dvd+software&gclid=CIug_bSan4wCFRUbZwodXRYe5A
one good source for $$$ video editing/coverting software

personally, after much invested time in setting up and play around with software (+ partly hardware - cable, adapter etc...) solution, i ended up investing in a vhs-dvd combi machine that let me convert ntsc,pal,secam tapes to dvd - one touch record

cheers ...

 

I'd definitely agree with this, depending on whether you want to do any editing, or just straight copies, for straight copies I'd get the dedicated machine, because otherwise you have to record off tape, compress to a size that a DVD would be able to handle, and then burn back onto DVD, lots of steps (now if it's one or two tapes, that might be fine, but lots of tapes, I'd get a machine for certain).