On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:29:10 -0400 Tod Thomas <fr33zone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I remember reading some time ago that VHS was a proprietary standard > and without special equipment it was difficult to transfer it to other > media. I'm pretty sure I heard within the last couple of years that the > VHS standard was retired, or its patent ran out, or something. I > expected someone would eventually pick up on that and develop an open > source process for transferring old VHS content to DVD. Is there > something likes this? Am I dreaming? You need a capture card for own stuff. It may be macrovision protected so you can't do it without either other trivial bits (which I believe are now illegal in the USA) or a tv capture card that doesn't get confused by it. That said VHS quality is abysmal and the image quality and colour stability is dire. That means that while it's easy to capture it's never going to look good and it's also very very hard to compress. Alan -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
