You can go with h264, but it' might not be compatible with your grandma's old player when she wants to see the videos. VirtualDub's deinterlace is OK for viewing and analyzing, and maybe OK for pristine source, but the best deinterlacer around is QTGMC, and probabaly better than your player or TV. The trend today is to encode as progressive - that depends on your playback equipment all playback equipment is not equal.
#How to convert vhs tapes to digital format archive
What you will archive are 90 minutes of the usual VHS defects, forever immortalized as digital artifacts.ĭVD is usually interlaced. To answer that in another way: probably one of the worst ways is to capture home-made noisy fluttery tape dropouts, rips, chroma noise, dot crawl, rainbows, halos, chroma shift, and other natural VHS problems directly to lossy formats like MPEG, h264, DivX, etc. what am i doing wrong? The "best" way is the way you captured earlier: with VirtualDub to YUY2 AVI with lossless huffyuv. what you guys using in order to archive those old vhs tapes?Ĥ. whice format should i choose : Mpeg-2 or H264ģ. what is the best way to archive old vhs ?Ģ. So now i need to capture again every tape, the second time, live to mpeg2. Program to convert it to Mpeg-2 with deinterlaced. I capture on tape of 90 minutes to Huffyuv, whice brought me a very large file of 50GB.Īfter that, i added the Deinterlaced filter to virtualdub, and convert the Huffyuv file into H264 file with 6000kbpsĮverything is ok, but the proccess is too slow, and i also want to save it in mpeg2 as well, but cannot find a good So i left with capture to HuffYuv, whice is a lossless option So i tried to capture directly to H264, but my pc, whice is a new I3 CPU, cannot handle my requiremnts:Īnd its loosing frames in the live capture proccess. The output is good quality, but i saw there is some problem with video been interlaced, and cannot find a way to make it Deinterlaced within this software,Īlso, i googled and found out the Mpeg-2 is a very Lossy format, unlike H264, or maybe i'm wrong?īut mpeg-2 seems to be out to date, and maybe it will dissapear in the next few years in favor of HD H264 Later i decided to capture directly to Mpeg-2 Files, using CyberLink PowerDirector 11 with a custom profile of 9000Kps To decode it, also, i noticed that xvid loose the original quality far more than other formats. I'm using virtualdub in order to capture the videoĪt first, i thought about capturing it directly to xvid with a bitrate of 5000kbpsīut after some thoughts, i decided that xvid is not really a standard format, and maybe in the future it will be impossible I have more than 30 hours of old and very precious family vhs tapes. For the last two weeks, i'm struggling with various formats and cannot decide whice one to choose.
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