Stans Posted May 5, 2006 Report Share Posted May 5, 2006 About three weeks ago I bought a Lite-On CD, DVD-RW player/recorder for the purpose of converting my old VHS and VHSC tapes to DVD. I finally got around to converting one, the VHSC I shot last year at the local airshow. This was the time I flew on the B-25J, "Panchito". It turned out pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whizkid Posted May 5, 2006 Report Share Posted May 5, 2006 About three weeks ago I bought a Lite-On CD, DVD-RW player/recorder for the purpose of converting my old VHS and VHSC tapes to DVD. I finally got around to converting one, the VHSC I shot last year at the local airshow. This was the time I flew on the B-25J, "Panchito". It turned out pretty good. That's nice,but do we get to see it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stans Posted May 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2006 Well, seeing as how I shot 90 minutes of tape, making that a 4.4 GB DVD and the Panchito ride lasted about 20 minutes, so if I just posted the Panchito ride that would be about 1GB and I can't think of any free hosting site that will let me upload a whole GB, plus the download, even with cable, would be incredibly time consuming, I'm thinking, sadly, no. Oh, and the movie capture component of FRAPS does a crappy job of capturing the video off the DVD, at least at 25fps. I'll try a higher capture rate and see if that smooths out the capture. Oh, and the noise cancelling hardware in my camcorder pretty much killed the noise of the engines. Ok, just tried capturing at 60 fps, no dice, still very choppy video capture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone Posted May 6, 2006 Report Share Posted May 6, 2006 Stans, can't you, y'know, break up the video into smaller clips like you can do to long mp3s, and upload some of them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stans Posted May 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2006 Files on the disc are in have .BUP, .IFO, and .VOB extensions, that's all and I don't know how to convert such into MPEG, WMV, or MP3 or 4. I'm thinking I will need software that will do such. Anybody know any good freeware for this job? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donster Posted May 6, 2006 Report Share Posted May 6, 2006 Just burn a bunch of copies and mail 'em out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stans Posted May 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2006 Ok, I just found this site I removed the link due to excessive malware from programs hosted on their site- Stans and they have several DVD/CD rippers and file converter programs that are freeware. In fact, they have a metric buttload of freeware! If you happened to download anything from their site, beware of the malware! I just finished (hopefully) removing a bunch of crap and restoring my system. Sorry I ever posted the link that I have removed. By the way, it was DirFile.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone Posted May 6, 2006 Report Share Posted May 6, 2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stans Posted May 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2006 Took over an hour to remove all their crap and fully restore my computer. The going price for commercially available CD/DVD ripper and converter software runs from $25 to $35, so I don't think I'll be posting cuts from the DVD any time soon. I'd rather put the money towards a new camcorder, a nice digital camcorder that records in higher resolutions and to a mini-disc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted May 6, 2006 Report Share Posted May 6, 2006 Ronin Heavy Robotic Industry produce the very fine DVD burner program hosted on DirFile.com! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stans Posted May 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2006 Ronin Heavy Robotic Industry produce the very fine DVD burner program hosted on DirFile.com! Figures. It tried to hari kari my computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted May 6, 2006 Report Share Posted May 6, 2006 Stans computer overcome with shame and regret dishonorable burn of allied a DVD. NEXT TIME YOU BURN JAPANESE PLANE BANZAI! Wait. Not sure how a say it. Burn Japanese DVD the plane. BANZAI! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stans Posted May 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2006 I burn Japanese stuff all the time. Burns nice and hot, easy to ignite too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cartoon Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 Not freeware, but I use Nero for stuff like that... You can recode DVD movies to standard MPEG movies. If you already got the Nero software for burning CD/DVD, you might check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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