[CT] Star Wars, Boba Fett

[Daniel Moran]

If you have a digital out on your laserdisc, it's for sound only -- 
laserdiscs store/stored video in analog format. Since that's true, any 
laserdisc to DVD transfer is going to inevitably require you to grab video 
-- there's no mechanism available to grab from the laserdisc player 
mechanism that I've ever heard of.

If you have a fast computer and fast hard drive, the WinTV card is really 
cheap and captures uncompressed video just fine. If it doesn't work for 
you, you're only out a few bucks, but it's worked fine for me in the past 
-- use the SVideo input; it's a significantly better capture than the 
composite. Make sure your hard drive is at least 7200 RPM -- 10K SCSI would 
be better, but 7200 RPM IDE will probably get it done -- and generally I'd 
recommend an entire empty partition on the HD to capture into. If you can't 
get it empty, at least defrag ahead of time.

The reason the WinTV card is so cheap is that it only captures uncompressed 
-- if your system isn't fast enough to take an uncompressed video stream, 
you're looking at something that compresses while capturing -- a Marvel 
G400, something like that. Good luck.

At 11:16 AM 5/20/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>>Two ways come to mind, both of which could cost you some cash.
>>
>>There exist hardware capture devices which will grab your video and 
>>convert it to AVI or even MPEG-2 realtime (I don't trust the latter).
>>
>>or...
>>
>>use the analog inputs of a DV or Digital8 camcorder to record the 
>>Laserdisc to digital video tape(s), and afterwards use firewire to 
>>transfer the entire tape to AVI format on the desktop.
>
>I'm guessing your second way is the most realistic, but I do wonder about 
>the fact that my Laserdisc player has some kind of fiber optic "Digital 
>Out" port on the back.  Does anybody know anything about what kind of data 
>is available on this port?
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