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analogue to digital
over60
25-08-2008
In the Sun this morning a device is advertised to plug into a VCR or vhs Camcorder and you can dowload to PC then convert to CD/DVD, are these devices any good and is the resuts ok. Thx.
sancheeez
25-08-2008
Depends on the device! (and the software it'll work with)

Some are better quality than others.

Although, most of it is down to how you encode it at the PC end. Given that the source material is very low quality (comared to what a PC is capable of producing) you are always going to be limited as to how much 'cleaning up' of the resulting digital video you're able to do. If you give it a grainy, jumpy old VHS recodring, you'll end up with a grainy, jumpy digital video!

Any graphics card with TV in is capable of doing this by the way. It's not a new thing, been graphics cards and USB boxes around for years allowing you to do this ...
over60
25-08-2008
Thx for that, also it says USB2, my puter, although upgraded with new processer and memory is only USB1.1 MMM wonder whether it would work.
sancheeez
25-08-2008
I doubt it.

I don't think USB 1.1 spec would be able to take enough data in to successfully read a video data stream.

You can buy USB2.0 PCI cards for under a tenner though so it's a pretty straightforward upgrade.

It does sound like you're using an old-ish PC though. What exactly is the spec of it? Video processing is resource intensive so if it is a really old processer with little memory, you may struggle ....
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