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Is there a quicker/easier way of converting VHS to DVD and......

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silkyuk9
silkyuk9 Posts: 2,815 Forumite
putting contents onto youtube?

Im not going to get away from the fact that a 3 hour VHS tape takes 3 hours to run through and copy to DVD.

After that it takes me almost 1 hour to get the contents off the dvd to my pc desktop using my dvd ripper software. Then Using Video Easy 4 cutting parts of a 3 hour tape into parts I require, generally upto 45 minutes of boxing footage, then extracting that to my desktop again can take upto 50 minutes to convert the footage to a suitable resolution but the footage can be around 1 gig. Then the process of uploading the footage to youtube which can take upto 1 hour for upload and process to take place.

Man its a slog.

There has to be an easier way to do this.
All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right, and outing the liars.
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  • cookie365
    cookie365 Posts: 1,809 Forumite
    Well, credit where it's due, I thought you'd never even start :)

    When you stick the DVD into your computer, look at it in Windows explorer - you should see a folder called VIDEO_TS and various VOB BUP and IFO files.

    If the VHS/DVD combo you're using is closing out the DVDs correctly, the VOB files should each be standalone video files. They're split to a maximum of 1 GB each.

    So no need to rip the DVD. Just copy the VOB files individually using Windows explorer, and you already have the video split.

    Though depending on how the box builds the menu you may need to slice off the menu from the first bit of the first VOB. Make sure whatever you use doesn't reencode the whole video. I personally use Womble but I know you don't want to spend much on this project so someone else may have a free alternative.

    http://www.womble.com/products/index.html

    Do you need to upload everything to youtube? Why not do all the copying to DVD first, then let people pick what they want uploaded?
  • silkyuk9
    silkyuk9 Posts: 2,815 Forumite
    cookie365 wrote: »
    Well, credit where it's due, I thought you'd never even start :)

    When you stick the DVD into your computer, look at it in Windows explorer - you should see a folder called VIDEO_TS and various VOB BUP and IFO files.

    If the VHS/DVD combo you're using is closing out the DVDs correctly, the VOB files should each be standalone video files. They're split to a maximum of 1 GB each.

    So no need to rip the DVD. Just copy the VOB files individually using Windows explorer, and you already have the video split.

    Though depending on how the box builds the menu you may need to slice off the menu from the first bit of the first VOB. Make sure whatever you use doesn't reencode the whole video. I personally use Womble but I know you don't want to spend much on this project so someone else may have a free alternative.

    http://www.womble.com/products/index.html

    Do you need to upload everything to youtube? Why not do all the copying to DVD first, then let people pick what they want uploaded?

    Thankls for that info. Im not uploading everything only certain bits of interest. however even if one bit is 15 minutes lomg it takes around 20 minutes to extract the 20 minutes of footage. This is a long project of mine and will take many months as I have many a few thousands fights on tape.
    All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right, and outing the liars.
  • cookie365
    cookie365 Posts: 1,809 Forumite
    Sounds like you're encoding when you copy from VHS to DVD, possibly re-encoding when you rip the DVD (what format does the rip save as?), then re-encoding again to split out the bits you want, then re-encoding again to the resolution you want.

    If you've got that many, it might be worth using ffmpeg
    and learning to write batch scripts.

    https://www.ffmpeg.org/

    Have a look here:
    http://blog.superuser.com/2012/02/24/ffmpeg-the-ultimate-video-and-audio-manipulation-tool/

    You could for example put a load of raw VOB files in a folder, create a CSV spreadsheet listing the files, start and end points, output filename, and encoding parameters, and use a script to run the conversion overnight.

    It'll be a steep learning curve, but it should save you hundreds of hours.
  • skintpaul
    skintpaul Posts: 1,510 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker I've been Money Tipped!
    bin the tapes, buy a (legal) download!
    breathe in, breathe out- You're alive! Everything else is a bonus, right? RIGHT??
  • Big_Graeme
    Big_Graeme Posts: 3,220 Forumite
    skintpaul wrote: »
    bin the tapes, buy a (legal) download!

    Did you even bother to understand what the OP is trying to do?
  • Cycrow
    Cycrow Posts: 2,639 Forumite
    What are you using to copy the vhs to dvd ?
    the easiest way would be to eliminate the dvd and copy the vhs directly to the pc, therefore not needing to rip the dvd at all.

    you many need specific hardware to do this, but you should be able to get something pretty cheap, years ago i used an old graphics card with a vivo port
  • gunte
    gunte Posts: 184 Forumite
    Something like this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Elgato-Video-Capture-Digitise-white/dp/B00293CDG0 perhaps.
    Not free but certainly time saving.
  • paddyrg
    paddyrg Posts: 13,543 Forumite
    Yes, capture directly to MPEG4 using a device like gunte posted - but you can get cheaper versions

    cheap and cheerful versions on Amazon
  • silkyuk9
    silkyuk9 Posts: 2,815 Forumite
    Cycrow wrote: »
    What are you using to copy the vhs to dvd ?
    the easiest way would be to eliminate the dvd and copy the vhs directly to the pc, therefore not needing to rip the dvd at all.

    you many need specific hardware to do this, but you should be able to get something pretty cheap, years ago i used an old graphics card with a vivo port


    Im using a Panasonic DMR EZ48
    All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right, and outing the liars.
  • silkyuk9
    silkyuk9 Posts: 2,815 Forumite
    skintpaul wrote: »
    bin the tapes, buy a (legal) download!

    Are you a weirdo?
    All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right, and outing the liars.
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