[PLUG-TALK] VHS player to computer

[John Jason Jordan]

On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 14:15:19 -0800
"joe at joseph-baker.com" <joe at joseph-baker.com> dijo:

>If you want to just run the baseband video into an adc and then
>convert it in sw, you will have to face problems like over coming
>(possibly) analog copy protection (eg MacroVision) and all sorts of
>color decoding issues.  It would make more sense to use a sw 'black
>box' that takes a file of samples as an input and creates a standard
>format out (.mpg, .???) 
>
>If you are using a sw black box, you might as well use an off the
>shelf black box that has the hw&sw integrated by the mfr, at which
>point you are back to my original suggestion.

In those two paragraphs the only word I understood was 'if.'