VHS Tape - PC

SV - how can you record straight from a video to a laptop?
I need to be able to do that without the farting around of putting things on a DVD first.

I tried to find a scart lead with a HDMI or USB on the other end but I can't find one.

You've lost me with your software question...do you mean to edit what's recorded?

I used to do this with a hauppage tv card. You take the output from your video into the card and then via another connector to the pc. This leads to average quality.

I rarely do it now, but I now would take it from video to dvd via a dvd recorder and then from dvd to the pc. You then would be in .vob format (or .vro for a dvd ram disc) You then would normally use software to convert from that format to avi format, which is compressed video.
What equipment do you have?

This might do the job if you aren't bothered about the best quality
HAUPPAUGE USB-Live 2 Video Capture Device

http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/site/products/data_usblive2.html

£30
http://www.pixmania.co.uk/tv-video-card/hauppauge-usb-live-2-video-capture-device/07836262-a.html?ectrans=1&gclid=CK-Ijpuq2b8CFfMZtAod6mkAbg#merch=1&srcid=11270&ef_id=UyxZKAAABCb@ThL9:20140722162304:s

Cheers Stow!

DVD recorders are a little steep in price for this imo. Then again if i need to pay £30+ for capture software i dunno. Maybe best to take it to some shop that does this?

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http://www.ijtdirect.co.uk/

sell all sorts of stuff, they may have what you want.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/honestech-vhs-to-dvd-deluxe-a06jr

How about the above? worth £30?

I`ve got one of them Phillips vhs/dvd combies if you want to buy it. 120 quid. Cost 500.

I purchased a dvd recorder many years ago and just plug that into the video and record, poor quality but does the job.

Wondering whether i could plug my video into my usb tv stick, if it finds it then i could maybe just record ?

Cheapest place for this is ebay if you run a search for USB VHS TO DVD CONVERTER theres plenty of equipment from a fiver upwards. These will digitize your vhs footage into files that can be watched on PC or burnt to dvd.

this one has a scart adaptor, looks ok for 12 quid

http://tinyurl.com/ldrr3mp

I still have loads of old racing on VHS - some of it from World of Sport. Managed to convert French Oaks to DVD - Indian Skimmer v Miesque.

you should be putting them on youtube if they are not their already velz

Me too velasquez, so many old races on tape from 70s. Terrific stuff.

Whit? The 70s!!Mac, the 70s!

Earliest race I've got - from telly, like - is the (now) Racing Post trophy won by Lanfranco in 1984. Because of the price of tapes I generally just taped the races and not the build up. I miss the leisurely build up you used to get with proper footage of the horses going down to the start...and crackly sound quality when racing was broadcast from France...you used to get the whole French Derby and Oaks, etc. on Sunday Grandstand, without all the crap data and graphics you get now on racing channels.

Is it OK to put our racing on YouTube? There is a lot of foreign racing on YouTube, but...are there copyright issues regarding British racing? There were some brilliant British Pathe films on a few months ago...60s Grand Nationals in colour.

Then again, nostalgia aside, it is better now, overall...

I used to tape every race that was on telly. Mid 70s on. Still got most of them. TV companies used to re-use the tapes too, so you are not alone. Many big sporting events were lost during the early days when they were taped over.

All the early Para Handy episodes were thrown in a skip and lost to posterity. Think only 10 or so episodes survived. That was a shame

Plenty on youtube velasquez. This is a rare one of the mighty Pendil.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw8JWtM_KL0

I would put all mine on youtube if I knew how and if I could make money

Yeah - a lot of Bud Neill's original Lobey Dosser art was also dumped in a skip when the Evening Citizen or Times moved, though an art student saved some of it...always remember The Vital Spark ship where the engineer rebuilds the engine and has loads of "spare" bits left over : "Och, they're just fancy trimmings, Captain..."

There were loads of full network broadcasts of American classic races from the 70s and 80s on YouTube a few months back...including the full build up, etc...