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S-Video or HDMI with VHS (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/homevideo@feddit.uk

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I'm at my folk's place for the time being and they've found a boat load of VHS recorded tapes of broadcast TV and movies.

I'm hoping to dump them all while I'm here, or at least a chunk and have an easy workflow for them to maintain after I leave, and sift through them and see if there's any !lostmedia@lemmy.world

Unfortunately, the equipment on hand I have here is limited and my time is limited so I can't order a whole bunch of crap either, so I likely won't be able to do that fancy RF tap I did some reading on lol

What I do have though, is an old computer with an S-Video capture card and a late model DVD/VCR recorder deck (Panasonic DMR-EZ48V) that has HDMI that I'm almost certain will output VHS over HDMI.

The one thing I could pickup easily is an HDMI capture device.

So which would be best, S-Video or HDMI? HDMI seems like the safe bet, but when it comes to this kind of thing I worry if it's going to do something fucky with the video signal lol

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[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

HDMI. The VCR is just encoding the analog signal digitally, which is what you're going to do anyway.