OK, chaps, what is the best way of getting the family video archives off our Sharp Viewcam VL-A10 onto my PC & then DVD?
Easy or no?
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OK, chaps, what is the best way of getting the family video archives off our Sharp Viewcam VL-A10 onto my PC & then DVD?
Easy or no?
Buy a video capture card. They take s-video and composite input. Then encode it as you desire. Then burn it onto a DVD with a PC DVD writer.
I use a Hauppage USB2 capture box although the PVR 250 is recommended as an internal solution.
I found the hardware easy to set-up but the different encoding standards are a real pain.
As are the different TV standards PAL , NTSC etc.
DivX is the most effective compression but Mpeg 2 seems to be the most common on PVRs.
Its a big topic
Cheers m8, time to go shopping methinks!
Well I just purchased a PVR 250 & 200gb HDD
Should be fun
Stick with mpeg2 encoding, then you can simply burn them off to dvd :)
DivX is tricky to get good results from (you can get near dvd quality on the size of a cd, but you *really* have to know what you're doing), so it's best to stick with the default mpeg2 (iirc the pvr 250 has full hardware mpeg2 capture and compression) setting.
S-video would probably be the best method of connecting it up as it offers better picture quality over composite (the single yellow phono connector).
Good luck :)
Cheers Stoo :thumbsup: