Is that any good as a capture program? I thought it was more for streaming.OBS for video
EDIT: and for that matter, what model VCR are you using? Does Sony have any models with TBC?
Is that any good as a capture program? I thought it was more for streaming.OBS for video
EDIT: and for that matter, what model VCR are you using? Does Sony have any models with TBC?
I ripped all of my VHS and cassettes using an elgato video capture dongle (https://www.elgato.com/en/video-capture) with OBS for video and Audacity for audio. The more expensive part was picking up a minidisc deck (and Hi-MD player), a high quality Sony VCR, and a high quality Sony dual cassette deck. I now have everything I could possibly need for any future acquisitions.
On that note, I have KuraiKat's ENTIRE collection ripped (for those that don't know, he gave me his collection to archive). I just have a little bit of cleanup to do and need to figure out a good hosting platform to share it all to everyone here. There's a TON of Deshabillz, Luna Sea, Lareine, and Kuroyume bootlegs, along with some other stuff that might have already been distributed by now by people who bought stuff from him years ago when he was still in the scene and trading/selling. Luckily, he took very good care of the majority of his stuff, and I was able to salvage almost everything. There are a handful of things that I'm unable to identify, but I did a mess of research and have almost everything properly labeled. Many of them are original source, so I ripped much of it in super high quality settings to best preserve it.
Note: Please don't bombard me with DMs asking about this stuff. It will come out in due time and I truly don't have time to list everything and/or answer a ton of questions currently. If you have questions regarding the equipment I use to rip, I can field those questions.
By curiosity, do you know much all of your rips weight GB wise in total ?
By pure curiosity is KuraiKat the same person that was referred as "Kurai" ?
Oh my, I must be doing things real wrong then, my original rips in the AVI format make 50 minute footage weight around 60gb lol, crazy stuff. (I wouldn't recommend VLC from my personal experience, so far it's been unreliable and a somewhat unpredictable in its results.. I'll try OBS, maybe I'll have a better experience with it)Without any transcodes/demux (ripping videos to audio files), it's sitting at around 90GB or so. Keep in mind though, that the majority is VHS rips, which are pretty lightweight. Most of those VHSes had multiple full shows on them, so it was painstaking.
Thanks for the additional information I was always curious about them, since I've seen their name around for quite a while. I never wanted to inquire much since it's a bit intrusive ahah. As far as I've heard he "left" the scene right ?Yep. He's gone by many names over the years. He was KuraiKat in the late 90's/early 2000's. Probably most notable for his "Kurai's Translations" page, but he was also really deep in the bootleg scene. It still boggles my mind how he was able to get his hands on so much stuff, especially back then.
Oh my, I must be doing things real wrong then, my original rips in the AVI format make 50 minute footage weight around 60gb lol, crazy stuff. (I wouldn't recommend VLC from my personal experience, so far it's been unreliable and a somewhat unpredictable in its results.. I'll try OBS, maybe I'll have a better experience with it)
Thanks for the additional information I was always curious about them, since I've seen their name around for quite a while. I never wanted to inquire much since it's a bit intrusive ahah. As far as I've heard he "left" the scene right ?
Thanks for the information. It'll save me some trouble that's sure !What I CAN tell you based on the videos codec info, is that the VHSes are encoded at 480p, with 30fps h264 AVC for video, and AAC HQ for audio. A 45 minute video clocks in at 900MB.
Wow, that's a really interesting story. That's quite a legacy to be honest, at least on here. (Whatever that means down the line) Thanks for taking it seriously, and dedicating yourself to that task, I can't wait to see what'll be readily available once you're done. Although the quest for rare material is still a bit fun, it's nice to think that the bands we've enjoyed on here won't be as hard to access as they've been in the past.That's what he made it sound like when I talked to him. He's a family man now, and just kinda lost interest from what I gathered. He's a really nice guy, and he's done so much for the community. I had purchased a few bootlegs from him back in the day (some of which are the more common ones floating around now), and I reached out to him to see if I could buy some more. He told me he was about to toss everything out because he didn't have any room for them anymore, so I offered to buy everything. He declined money, and just asked that I digitize everything and get it out for more people to appreciate. I've spent the last 2 years ripping it all.
Note: Please don't bombard me with DMs asking about this stuff.
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I'm guessing you didn't set any compression XDOh my, I must be doing things real wrong then, my original rips in the AVI format make 50 minute footage weight around 60gb lol
I have no idea what would make you assume that. ahahah (But for real I thought that was the right thing to do ? And the worse part is that those are times that it worked, on other instances VLC would just crash halfway -_-... especially shitty if you're ripping something that's hours long)I'm guessing you didn't set any compression XD
Back in the old days you would rip without compression (or with a very fast minimal compressor like Huffyuv) and then compress afterward, but these days computers are powerful enough to compress it right off the wire. Or at least, mine is - your mileage may varyBut for real I thought that was the right thing to do
Back in the old days you would rip without compression (or with a very fast minimal compressor like Huffyuv) and then compress afterward, but these days computers are powerful enough to compress it right off the wire. Or at least, mine is - your mileage may vary
Incidentally, I use Virtualdub's capture mode for ripping.
It's still pretty much the state of the art. Video capture hasn't changed that much over the years, and all the best hardware for it is pretty old too. Ripping analog media is very much a niche interest now.(I can't believe you use such old software, I got weary once I got an alert that the website didn't use https lol)
Was the TBC-1000 really better than the onboard TBC in the VCR? I'm using a Mitsubishi SVHS deck with built-in line TBC.I don't recall my A-B testing with and without the TBC-1000 but I believed it did it's job
Yeah but... composite-only?Lord Smurf is actually selling a Cypress CDM-8120 which looks to be a clone of the AVT-8710 for $450 as of this month:
http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/marketplace/8243-sale-tbc-1000-a.html
Yeah but... composite-only?
I saw someone else on there sold a full-featured Cypress model a few months back for like $900. A bit steep if you ask me.
I'll have to check on that ADVC thing, they seem to imply that it's only the 100 specifically (and not the 110 that I have) but no one seems to have specifically tried this.
Also, for the rest of you bystanders, that same guy is selling some ATI capture cards:
http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/marketplace/8253-sale-ati-600-a.html
EDIT: oh, another question for the viewers at home: any thoughts on capturing through the capture card vs. routing it separately to a sound card? I always just use the capture card for both A and V.
Oh yes, S-Video has two signals on two wires for video whereas composite just has one (and component has three)I don't recall if the quality drops versus s-video to s-video.
Yeah I sort of assumed the same, that whatever's in the capture card is good enough, but I saw some people on Digitalfaq mentioning separate audio cards. Not sure if it really matters or if it's just a sort of belt-and-suspenders approach.I've always had the unfounded opinion that the audio quality was just less than CD quality and that the RCA cables and video capture card would do a more than adequate job at capturing audio.