[PLUG-TALK] VHS player to computer

[joe at joseph-baker.com]

I would definitely recommend using an off the shelf converter.

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.

Hope this helps.

Joe B.

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On Jan 3, 2016, at 10:27 AM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:

I assume it can be done, but how? Has anyone here done it?
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