How to transfer VHS to CDRW?

[wQuay]

Is this possible? what kind of equipment will I need?

 

[Brian48]

You need a video capture card like the ones offerred by ATI or Hauppauge. Recently transferred my wedding video (1.45 hrs) onto a CD-R myself.

 

[rbV5]

Here is a good Link for information. I capture with my AIW Radeon and burn in Nero.

 

[wQuay]

Ok, thanks guys. A-I-W Radeon 32 mb DDR looks like the way to go.

 

[Einz]

you might also consider the radeon vivo, if i recall correctly

 

[Brian48]

I was too cheap to go that route. Already had a GeForce DDR so I just bought the ATI TV Wonder VE ($39.95) stand-alone card instead. Works pretty darn well considering the price, but it doesn't support on-the-fly .mpg1 compression. The pricier TV Wonder ($79.75) does that, but image and audio quality is the same.

Not a big deal for me. I just record about 1/2 hrs at a time using the proprietary VCR1 format and then use a freeware utility like Avi2mpeg to convert the .avi file into a more generic .mpg format so I can play it on other machines and fit it all on one 80min CDR.