![]() ![]() Search the forum for other recc devices but avoid cheap ones.ĭVD recorders can be a good choice if your ultimate goal is DVD discs (or you can be satisfied with the inefficient MPEG2 format as individual video files ripped from the DVD). A decent one such as a Hauppauge USB-Live2 will set you back > $50 US. And you could also run in to transfer issues which require additional hardware on top of a usb capture device. A truly lossless video will be some 30 gb per hour !!!. That could be 1, 2 or even more hours of actual video. Your dvd disk will hold up to 4.3 gb of data. That depends on both the original vhs, the quality/features of the vhs/dvd combo and the recording rate to the dvd disk.īut starting again and actually creating truly lossless files will also substantially increase the file size. It is impossible to state the quality loss at this stage. But what you inevitably will have is part of one sequence in one file and one in another. And since you would need the original disks AND put each set of vobs in to a separate folder you have less options available.Īvidemux can still read individual vobs and you can still edit/trim them as I described above and save the edited version to a mpg without further loss. Since dvd files follow a general pattern - see 'What is' at the top of the screen you read this post which explains the content of each disk. You have also renamed the original vobs to, I guess, what the principal subject was. Vob2mpg will not work without the ifos since it uses the information (ifo = information) from these to create the single mpg video. But these can not be edited so accurately. The whole point of conversion to mp4 is to give you smaller files with more efficient codecs than mpeg2 from the dvd. When you want to experiment by all means then with a program like Premiere Elements (there are better and, again, free) ![]() You can do simple cuts and edits in another free program called avidemux and save the revised mpg without losing any real quality. There is absolutely no point in creating a mp4 file as is from this mpg although the ffmpeg command is quite simple. You no longer need the other files on your PC. Now you run a small free program called vob2mpg which will give you a single mpg file from the several vob files from the disk. If you did not then I suggest you do copy the rest of the files on the dvd disk. Now rather than confuse you by explaining the correct meaning of both 'lossless' and 'RAW' you really want to know how to proceed with what you have.įirstly, when you copied the contents from the dvd disk to your PC I trust you copied ALL the files including the ifos. It is, at best, a quick 'n dirty method to get digital files. I do not wish to be cruel but transfer of vhs to a PC by this method does not give you lossless digital files. I then have the option of editing a copy of these 'raw' to experiment with brightness/color etc which I assume would then involve transcoding? In the end, these resultant MP4 videos will be the 'raw' ones that I will store and keep. When I mean "editing", I'm talking about more of trimming/cutting out the unwanted video parts. Can I obtain lossless quality in the conversion from VOB to MP4 by using FFmpeg? If so, what are the instructions? Is there a better and easier way? Then can I use a program like Abobe Premiere Elements to edit these MP4s and still result in lossless quality videos? I am now agonizing over how to do my next step, which is to organize and edit all this information (based on events/dates etc) and convert it all into individual MP4 files (most popular file type). I think this was the best way to get the best possible quality (lossless?) video from my VHS tapes into a preliminary digital format. This resulted in VOB-type files which in turn I copied to my desktop. I recently used a 2016 VHS/DVD player/recorder to copy video from my VHS tapes (home movies) to writable DVDs on the same machine. ![]()
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