[TheForge] tube Now DVD

[Loyd Craft]

Roger R Degner wrote:

>I am copying VHS tapes with a pass through my digital camera.  Creating
>a mpeg? File at its slowest speed which allows slightly less than 5
>hours on a DVD.  I am using MY DVD software to capture and recordit now
>to burn the DVD with a Sony 510A burner.  The Sony burner is a 4X but
>had to install 1X firmware witch is a rip-off as I bought the 510
>because it was 4X not 1X which is what is all the faster it will burn.
>As for the blank media no I am using cheap ones from eBay
>I am using -R but the machine is capable of also burning +R
>Any suggestions I asked Best Buy what they sell the most and they say it
>is equal so until the DVD format thing is figured out were in the VHS
>BETA boat both say they are the best up until the last minute.
>Roger R Degner
>  
>

Supposedly -R is more compatible with more DVD players.    If +R/-R both 
work for you in your dvd player then the answer is to buy whatever is on 
sale.      Be warned on buying the cheapest media made...    If it goes 
bad, and they do, the only fix is to have another copy.

-R is from the people who set the spec for DVD.  +r is an extension of 
CD-RW as far as recording systems work.  People making +r/+rw are not 
paying royalties on the -R spec which is their primary motivation for 
pushing the +r/+rw spec.

Are you actually getting decent looking video with it compressed to 5 
hours on a disc?   That must be artifacting in a big way.    I would 
think VHS copies would be grainy enough to make you want a higher 
bitrate just to avoid the artifacting on screen.