Copying VHS to DVD

[Tiger]

I am in the process of copying my videos onto DVD. I have done most of them but some have some sort of copy protection which stops me from copying them. Some of these titles are unavailable on DVD and are starting to wear out. I think the protection is called Macrovision. How do you remove the protection, I imagine I need to buy some hardware etc. but what kind? Anyone been able to copy protected VHS videos successfully?

[mjmjm]

Hi.
Put "remove macrovision" into Google.

[Gingermick]

here's some good infor

[nihilism]

Macrovision. Silicon chip / electronics australia had a project some years back called dr video, should still be available as a kit from altronics or jaycar. this will get rid of the macrovision.

[Sturdee]

Anyone been able to copy protected VHS videos successfully?

I have copied some dancing videos by playing the videos on tv and using my camera to record them to another video machine. I played them in a darkened room and copied the sound direct into the camera.

There was some loss of quality but it was acceptable to me as I could clearly follow and see the demonstrations.


Peter.

[Ashore]

have a talk to the jaycar salesmen

[chippy 71]

I am in the process of copying my videos onto DVD. I have done most of them but some have some sort of copy protection which stops me from copying them. Some of these titles are unavailable on DVD and are starting to wear out. I think the protection is called Macrovision. How do you remove the protection, I imagine I need to buy some hardware etc. but what kind? Anyone been able to copy protected VHS videos successfully?

A program called DVD Fab Platinum will copy protected CD/DVDs

Colin

[BEKKY]

Why not play the videos on a vcr and copy using a dvd recorder.

Just a thought,
Keith.

[petersemple]

Why not play the videos on a vcr and copy using a dvd recorder.

Most DVD recorders will prohibit copying anything encoded with Macrovision. You would need the macrovision decoder thingy to do it.

[Tiger]

Thanks guys. This is going to be more difficult than I first thought. Ultimately, I might just do as Sturdee has done and use a video camera to record.

[petersemple]

I am still looking into it, but it seems as if it might be possible to do with MythTV on a computer with a capture card. You would need to have a spare computer, or a large enough hard drive to run an extra partition as MythTV runs on Linux. You would also need to make sure your capture device has drivers for linux available.

Peter

[Tiger]

Thanks Ashore, the part I think will do the job is
DVD Maker and USB 2.0 AV Grabber - Jaycar Electronics

Costs around $50.

[Tiger]

Bought the part from Jaycar and it gets the video onto the computer but it saves it in a MPEG format which I can't use on my dvd recorder (with hard drive). So I can play the video with Media Player but can't get it onto a dvd .

[Gingermick]

but you have a file and there are lots of programs that will convert mpeg to dvd format.
If you got Nero with your computer, you might have nero vision. But if you want to convert it to divx for your dvd recorder, you'll need something else, but there are millions of those programs around.