I concur that where possible, you should buy a DVD version of your movie. You can contact me directly if you need additional help. If your movie is longer than that you would have to spend a lot more money for better capturing devices. The drawback - Dazzle software can only record 104 minutes. Option 3 - Buy expensive Video Capture Device. Start the software, put in a blank DVD (I assume you have a DVD recorder on your computer - if not, you can get one from Newegg for less than $30.00), hit play on your VCR and start recording.ģ. Plug the Video (yellow) and Audio cables (red and white connected to the Y-cable) from your VCR to Dazzle. If you have stereo out then you do not need the cable). If you have Windows XP (with Service Pack 2) somewhere this would work smoothly.īuy a USB video capture device such as Dazzle (made by Pinnacle) from Best Buy for $100.00.īuy a Y-audio cable from Radioshack Plug this cable to the back of your VCR Audio Out (most likely a Mono single plug. Option # 2 - Do not use Linux because there is no simple way to do this (yes, I have searched and posted for help in this forum without any success). If you have money to burn, bring all your VHS tapes to Wal-Mart or Walgreens for the conversion.Ģ. If anyone can walk me through this, I will be infinitely grateful. I'm assuming someone else has run into this problem. I don't know how to hook the VCR to the computer. Now, I have no clue how to do this nor what hardware I would need if any to do this. As far as I can tell the only way I can convert them is by going from analog VHS to digital DVD. I do own a DVR but most of them won't copy for copy protect reasons. I have done some research and every bit of information assumes that I would have an idea of what I'm doing.

Cinderella has already bit the dust and I'm paying dearly for it.

I'm looking to convert them to DVD for both backup and space savings. My granddaughter has found them and finds them fantastically entertaining but VHS isn't exactly hardy for a 4 year old to handle.

I am sitting on over a hundred Disney and other kid's VHS tapes we still have around from when our kids were little.

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