Questions tagged [vhs]
For questions directly involving the Video Home System (VHS) standard.
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Optimize VHS Capturing with OBS Studio
My setup is: VHS > AV2HDMI > UGreen HDMI capture device.
Is the bit rate overkill?
How about incoming resolution and scaled output, should I go smaller?
It seems to currently output 15MB/min, ...
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SCART To HDMI recurrently loses signal: hardware problem, firmware bug, or else?
I just bought a scart to hdmi adapter. It was not the cheapest as it also acts as a switch between 3 types of inputs : SCART, "3-cable AV", or just HDMI.
My goal is to video capture some VHS ...
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Improving / upscaling old VHS video footage
i've recorded an old video tape via USB grabber - it has a resoution of 720x576 pixels.
What i want to do now is:
enhancing quality by AI-resizing to 4K (maybe using Topaz AI 4 or a cheaper method)
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Why this SCART adapter only works for some video tapes?
In order to digitalize video tapes (K7) recorded with a camcorder, I used a SCART to hdmi converter (I think it's this model https://www.amazon.co.uk/Converter-Upscale-Adaptor-Monitor-Projector-Black/...
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Which gives better quality SCART or S-VIDEO?
I have SVHS video cassetes and Panasonic NV-HS1000B. It has 2 outputs.
S-VIDEO and SCART.
There is any reason to use SCART and not the SVIDEO output?
I was googling but was confused. I read that SCART ...
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FFmpeg: maximum VHS quality?
I'm digitizing a number of VHS tapes into lossless video files using FFmpeg. How can I optimize my FFmpeg command further in order to come closer to the requested specs below, with the best possible ...
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Trying to identify specific VHS filters used here
A slightly blurry VHS filter:
And a screenshot from a puppetcombo game called murderhouse. They seem to have blue-yellow accents and are slightly blurry.
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Authentic VHS tape effect in Premiere Pro
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I'm making an artwork and here's how it goes in a nutshell: A fictional movie scene that was (1) shot on film in the '60s, (2) restored in VHS format in the '80s or '90s, and (3) restored ...
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VHS and capture: what is the real aspect ratio?
I have captured a vhs with this script under Linux
#!/bin/sh
videodevice="/dev/video0"
alsadevice="hw:2,0"
v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --set-ctrl mute=0
v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 -i 1
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Is a TBC required for converting VHS home videos to digital format?
This is a follow-up question to this one. The DigitalFAQ forum, whose members seem to know a lot about this particular topic, say about TBCs:
You must have some form of TBC, it's not optional. You ...
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Converting/filtering/deinterlacing VHS captures on Linux
I'm pretty much a novice video editor especially on Linux. I'm looking to take a bunch of old home videos I captured using ffmpeg and clean them up as painlessly/automatically as possible. At this ...
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Compensate or fix VHS artefacts in areas of high contrast
Take a look at the man in a tuxedo. To the right of the black leg, there is a bright vertical line.
Is there some kind of filter in something like VirtualDub or Vapoursynth which could improve this ...
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What causes audio sync drift when digitizing VHS?
In the process of digitizing family VHS tapes, amateur video producers often encounter audio drift or skew where the audio track becomes out of sync with the video:
It slowly dawned on me that the ...
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VHS Wobble After Effects
Does anyone know how to achieve the specific wobble of the VHS tape that can be seen here:
(it's throughout the video, but you can best see it if you look at the "...
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Testing if VCR supports S-Video by image comparison. Is it correct?
When I capture a video from my VCR (a Sharp VC-M401SM) with an S-Video cable connected to a SCART adaptor (like the one shown in this post) I obtain a gray-scale image.
One possibility for this is ...
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Why does my VCR output a grayscale video if I use an S-Video cable?
I asked here if an S-Video cable could improve the output quality of my VCR (Sharp VC-M401SM). The answers were promising so I bought this S-Video cable (they send me a 2 m cable instead of 0.5 m).
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Benefits of component/RGB connector (vs. S-video or composite) for VHS capture?
I know it's 2020 but I still have a few VHS tapes to digitise.
I do not expect the picture quality to be necessarily good enough to worry about this question. Still, I would hate to lose any tiny ...
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Does using an S-Video output via a SCART connector improve the output quality of a VCR?
This answer reports that in order not to lose quality when digitizing VHS one should use an S-Video cable.
My VCR is a Sharp VC-M401SM and does not have any S-Video output nor a composite output. ...
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poor quality video VHS camcorder: is there a fix?
I recently rescued an old Panasonic M40 VHS camcorder. All the electronics work absolutely fine. I bought a pack of VHS tapes and did a quick video test. The video quality is very bad with wobbly ...
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Name of old VHS content blocker device
I am not sure if this is the right network to ask this question but it's the closest I could find.
An acquaintance of mine told me that, when he was a kid, they had some kind of content blocking ...
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Why is my 480p Handbrake conversion of NTSC home video DVD much larger file size than the DVD?
I'm not super experienced with video production but I understand the technical basics of resolutions, frame rates, compression types, etc.
I have an NTSC DVD containing a long (3h) home movie shot on ...
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Is a UK PAL video tape compatible with a continental Europe PAL VHS/S-VHS player in terms of video and sound
I've read that the difference between UK PAL and Continental PAL is the carrier frequency used for the audio. But is that referring to:
the (now former) analogue TV broadcasts
the encoding on the ...
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Can't capture video from dshow device. FFmpeg finish immediately resulting empty file
I'm digitizing my old tape recordings from usb dongle. Everything been ok, I digitized several tapes, but I'm abandoned this project for a while and reinstalled windows. Keeping on secondary drive the ...
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Vhs capture: 720x576 or less?
On many forum and sites people say that you can capture with resolution of 720x576. But many other replies is too high resolution and is better to capture at 512x384 or similar. Someone know what is ...
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Before I throw away these massive uncompressed VHS digitizations, what kind of post processing can I do to improve them?
An uncompressed digitized VHS tape is like 60 gigs. Obviously way too big. I can compress it down using H.265 and get basically the same quality. But before I do that, is there any production ...
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Remove vertical jumps from captured VHS video
I was watching the following video on youtube, and as you can see, the whole frame just jumps up for single frames at random intervals, always to the same height. It seems to me that this would be ...
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vhs to digital conversion flickers only when captured
I have a Diamond One Touch Video Capture. When I view the video on my computer is is great, but when I select capture, the video and audio flicker. These are old home videos. I tried a commercial ...
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Digitize a VHS tape with FFmpeg and get a live preview
Digitize a VHS tape with FFmpeg
On this thread, I found a perfect command to digitize a VHS tape with FFmpeg using a USB video grabber. All good with that; it works like a charm. Acceptable bitrate, ...
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Correct "stripes" in VHS record
Recently I recorded my old VHS tapes to my hard disk. There is one thing bothering me concerning the video quality. Whenever the camera moves, the motion produces visible "stripes" in the picture:
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What timing settings in VirtualDub should be used for VHS capture via EasyCap?
I want to digitize my VHS (PAL) home video tapes using an old video cassette player and EasyCap. Here is the photo of my EasyCap chips for reference:
After several days of reading how to perform ...
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Why do VHS tapes degrade in two different ways when copied?
Generation loss occurs when a VHS tape is copied, the copy is copied again, and so on. I have seen two different patterns in how video and sound degrade.
In one type, horizontal bleeding starts in ...
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How can you fix color banding from VHS video tape in post-processing?
Old VHS tapes often have horizontal lines/bands that slowly scroll up or down the video during playback. This video is already on DVD, so I am trying to remove the banding in post-processing.
The ...
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capturing video from VHS flickers
I am trying to record all my old VHS tapes. I bought a video grabber, usbtv 4-1.2:1.0: Fushicai USBTV007 Audio-Video Grabber, but somehow that does not work well. I tried using VLC, but that has some ...
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What causes the VHS rewind effect? And how did rewind preview work?
(Apologies if this is the wrong stackexchange, it seems the most appropriate)
When rewinding a VHS tape on an analog player (i.e. a VCR hooked up to a (CRT?) TV) when rewinding, or fast-forwarding, ...
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A question about VHS and SVHS
I have this situation:
I have two VCRs, one is a simple LG VHS VCR. It is one of the latest VCRs, with 4 heads and is standard (composite, not S-Video output). The quality is really poor.
The other ...
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VHS to digital, flickering, lack of video and good sound
I'm trying to convert some VHS videos into digital.
To do so, I got the VGB100 from August and connected it to the VHS player and to my computer.
I've used two applications to capture video:
Arcsoft ...
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VHS tape has one "cog" blocked off - can't play it
I'm converting some old VHS tapes to DVD, and all is going well.
The last VHS tape, however, is different than the others. Where you would normally have 2 "cogs" for the two reels, this tape only has ...
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beginning of old VHS tape unreachable
I was recently given a 27-year-old VHS tape to transfer.
While I'm happy that most of the tape is transferring smoothly (right now), the beginning of the tape is inaccessible. The player's auto-...
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Change codec so seek bar works in Windows Media Player
The library I work at has been converting VHS tapes to DVDs. They used a Magnavox ZV427MG9. The DVDs play in Windows Media Player, but the seek bar doesn't work. It works fine in VLC Player. It is ...
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How to play/back-up PAL/SECAM VHS tapes?
I have a few old VHS tapes that are in PAL/SECAM format, and I live in Canada. I was wondering what would be the best way to back-up/play these tapes?
Hunt for a PAL/Secam VHS player? (Could be ...
