Hi all,
I was thinking of using my Archos to help me convert some old videos I have onto DVD.
Is this a decent way of doing this?
The plan was to record from my VHS player to the Archos itself, this will create MPEG4 files? Is that correct as I am sure it creates AVI files.
Will I then need to convert these to MPEG2 so I can burn them to a DVD or will the MPEG4 work okay.
Sorry I am new to all this. A quick guide would be really really helpful, also detailing software I would need preferably being free!
Thanks in advance
Olly
Recording from VHS to Archos - Then converting to DVD
You may be able to go right from VCR to the DVR station, depending onthe outputs...
Bear in mind that if your VCR only ghas composite out, that the interleave may give you intermittant picture or give you a black and white image. You may need a composite to S-Vidoe adapter ($8-$25 US) to acomplish this.
You also need to acquire software to make convertions to DVD... some open source and freeware is available for that. Google mencoder and look for a front-end for your chosen OS (Linux, OS X or Windoze). Solutions based on mencoder with all the necessary codecs should take care of your format requirements.
Bear in mind that if your VCR only ghas composite out, that the interleave may give you intermittant picture or give you a black and white image. You may need a composite to S-Vidoe adapter ($8-$25 US) to acomplish this.
You also need to acquire software to make convertions to DVD... some open source and freeware is available for that. Google mencoder and look for a front-end for your chosen OS (Linux, OS X or Windoze). Solutions based on mencoder with all the necessary codecs should take care of your format requirements.
With the latest firmware you do not need the composite to SVIDEO adpater.
A DVD-player that plays the MPEG4-files produced by the archos unit will probably cost $50 or less (DivX-support). I am transferring my videotapes to digital format using the archos but I just burn the MPEG4-files to DVDs.
A DVD-player that plays the MPEG4-files produced by the archos unit will probably cost $50 or less (DivX-support). I am transferring my videotapes to digital format using the archos but I just burn the MPEG4-files to DVDs.
/Tommy Persson, Sweden
So does that mean as soon as I have recorded from the VHS to the Archos I can burn the files straight to a DVD without any conversion. Just for clarification as I am new to this.
I was under the impression that an AVI file was created when you record from TV/VHS etc and that you can not burn these straight to a DVD.
I was under the impression that an AVI file was created when you record from TV/VHS etc and that you can not burn these straight to a DVD.
You want to burn a data DVD with an ordinary file system on it. Since I use Linux and growisofs I do not know how to do that in Windows. But all modern stationary DVD-players will be able to play a data DVD. You will get a list of the files on the TV. To play the archos files you have to buy a DVD player that supports DivX.MBCC wrote:So does that mean as soon as I have recorded from the VHS to the Archos I can burn the files straight to a DVD without any conversion. Just for clarification as I am new to this.
Sony DVD Architect seems like a program to burn real DVD:s and you do not want to do that since the files have to be converted and they take more place as mpg-files.
/Tommy Persson, Sweden
OK, maybe I'm missing something. If you're going to burn data files to play in the DVD player, why not just skip the DVD and just play straight from the 604? I don't get it. DVD's are vulnerable to damage as archive media, whereas two copies of the files on different hard drives would be fairly safe. You could always transfer to the 604 when you want to view it.
I am digitizing my VHS collection and I do not want to store it on hard disk since it takes up too much space. I will save the VHS tapes so I have another backup if the DVD goes bad. I can lend the DVD to people.
You are saying that DVD goes bad but my experience is that I have not had this problem and I will copy all files from the DVD:s to Blueray when this becomes standard. So you only have to have a media that will last until the next step in the techological development.
You are saying that DVD goes bad but my experience is that I have not had this problem and I will copy all files from the DVD:s to Blueray when this becomes standard. So you only have to have a media that will last until the next step in the techological development.
/Tommy Persson, Sweden