Transfer VHS to PC

[cobito]

The VGA output is just that: an output. You'll have to buy an analog video card or adapter. For that I used a PCI card with hardware MPEG2 video encoding that worked on a Pentium 2. I suppose things have evolved.

[Fassou]

If you want to input video signal to the PC, you need a video input (it can be a USB converter), because where you connected it is a VGA output, not an input.

Salu2!

[Yorus]

A gadget like the one you linked would serve you perfectly, and for what they cost I wouldn't eat any more out of the jar. I have one bought at Lidl and it works perfectly. It's certainly not the milk, but even less so the signal sent by the VHS video, and there you really can't work miracles.

[Sylver]

@Yorus:

A device like the one you linked would serve you perfectly, and for what they cost I wouldn't eat more out of a jar. I have one bought at Lidl and it works perfectly. It's probably not the milk, but even less so the signal sent by the VHS video, and there you can't work miracles.

Could you give us more info about that gadget? Suddenly I've had a nostalgic streak and I'd like to know how much it would cost to rescue my old VHS tapes and stuff

Regards

[torquis]

Well, it's a USB adapter with 3 female RCA cables (yellow, red and white), with this adapter we get the external input of the analog video signal and analog audio from any analog player (VHS player, Beta, etc.) to the PC via USB. rgb = red, green and blue, it's just the video signal that interlaces the 3 primary colors to see video rca= red, white (audio), yellow (video) -> ((composite video))

[Yorus]

In my case, the video has a Euroconnector and I had to use a converter that came with it. For now, I have only transferred a tape from my father, but I have not bothered to do more things or more tests, because I am short of time.

[Sylver]

@Yorus:

In my case the video has euroconector and I had to use a converter that already came with it. For now I have only transferred a tape from my father, but I have not bothered to do more things or more tests, because I am short of time.

So with a euroconector adapter to what input?
If you could leave me more info about the gadget from Lidl I would be very grateful :sisi:

Greetings!

[Yorus]

@Sylver:

So with a Euroconnector adapter to what input?
If you could leave me more info about the gadget from Lidl I would be very grateful :sisi:

Best regards!

This is the gadget in question that I bought:

http://www.lidl-service.com/cps/rde/xchg/SID-15C091FF-01A30FBC/lsp/hs.xsl/product.html?id=55410285&title=Capturador+de+v%C3%ADdeo+con+USB&count=1

If you look at the photo you have the main device shaped like a pendrive and almost plugged into it appears a cable that on one end is similar to a microUSB and on the other has four cables. The one with the black connector is S-Video and we completely ignore that one. The others are the composite video ones, the yellow one for the image and the red and white ones for the two audio channels. Then down below in the shape of a black box is the composite video converter (you can see the three connectors white, yellow and red) to Euroconnector, which is not seen well but is similar to this:

Now with that and with the software that comes with it, you have to press play on the video and at the same time record on the PC. Unfortunately it is in real time and if the movie lasts 90min then that's how long it will take to transfer it to the PC, but it's not something that will be done every day.

I think you can also do audio captures alone, because the software is prepared for it (Power Director in this case) but it's silly having a sound card.

I hope the explanation has been helpful

[torquis]

I finally managed to do it with an AverMedia tv go card, from the year 2000, to be honest it has been a bit complicated to set it up, and even more so with my forgotten telecommunications knowledge. The thing is that the euroconnector has to be connected to the vhs player, with the (out) option, and in my case I had to use a jack with two outputs to rca (white and red audio) for the sound. And everything perfect. Now, I would need a good program to be able to record the vhs movies, I have tried so far with two programs, 1 the one from aver tv go (which has a recording size of 20 sec for 70 mb approx) 1 golden videos (free program), with a recording size of 20 sec for 600 bytes), the latter does not work very well, but I think it is due to the processor of my old pc being a pentium II. I would need more programs of this type of video input capture, to be able to record the tapes or things from the tv, goodbye, and thanks to all.

[Sylver]

@Yorus:

This is the gadget in question that I bought:

http://www.lidl-service.com/cps/rde/xchg/SID-15C091FF-01A30FBC/lsp/hs.xsl/product.html?id=55410285&title=Capturador+de+v%C3%ADdeo+con+USB&count=1

If you look at the photo, you have the main device shaped like a pendrive and almost plugged into it appears a cable that on one end is similar to a microUSB and on the other has four cables. The one with the black connector is S-Video and we completely ignore that one. The others are the composite video ones, the yellow one for the image and the red and white ones for the two audio channels. Then down below, shaped like a black box, is the composite video converter (you can see the three white, yellow and red connectors) to Euroconnector, which is not seen well but is similar to this:

Now with that and the software that comes with it, you have to press play on the video and at the same time record on the PC. Unfortunately, it's in real time and if the movie lasts 90min, then that's how long it will take to transfer it to the PC, but it's not something that will be done every day.

I think you can also do audio captures alone, because the software is prepared for it (Power Director in this case) but it's silly having a sound card.

I hope the explanation was helpful

Excellent Yorus, everything is very clear

Thank you very much, now let's see if I can get my hands on the gadget, I have VHS to bury the whole PC and more :ugly:

Best regards!

[Yorus]

@torquis:

Now, I would need a good program to be able to record the VHS movies, I have tried so far with two programs,

1 the one from aver tv go (which has a recording size of 20 sec for 70 mb approx)
1 golden videos (free program), with a recording size of 20 sec for 600 bytes), the latter does not work very well, but I think it is due to the processor of my old pc being a pentium II.

I would need more programs of this type of video input capture, to be able to record the tapes or things from the tv, regards, and thanks to all.

I can't help you there for the moment, because the Power Director that comes with me is paid, and the truth is that the videos take up their own space too (1h 50min are 7,4Gb). Then it will be possible to convert without problems, although taking into account the low quality I might opt for putting more than one on a DVD and making menus and such, but I would have to look for the appropriate programs.

@sylver:

Excellent Yorus, everything very clear

Thank you very much, now let's see if I can get the gadget, I have VHS to bury the whole PC and more

I have very few, but my father wanted to transfer a few car ones and bought the gadget, and as I like to tinker I got to work. If they are movies, documentaries or whatever more or less known commercials it always comes out more cost-effective to look for something ripped from DVD/BR, but for home recordings it is very good.

[Sylver]

@Yorus:

…but for home recordings it's very good.

It's just that, home and old recordings, some from TV series and commercials from past times... Very specific memories that hit my nostalgic vein when I read this thread, and once something gets into the "pending" brain region... It doesn't come out unless it's done :lol:

Best regards!