DVD/R's on PC - How do I copy from old VHS (and commercial D

[Acousticat]

Hi, I'm looking to buy a new PC with a recordable DVD drive.

1.) Can almost all of them record movies from my vhs vcr with standard
cables of some type?

2.) Can I copy a movie DVD (e.g. a purchased Concert DVD)? How does a person
bypass the copy protection? I probably would only do this for concert DVD's
on rare occasions when I don't have time to finish a movie, or to save
favorite parts of a concert video.

Thanks very much for any help/tips/hints!!!

Mark markyoung@dchs.org
(please send a cc: if you get a chance)

--
Mark R. Young
markyoung@chartermi.net
www.geocities.com/resolvingconcerns

 

[Chaos Master]

Acousticat mumbled:

Hi, I'm looking to buy a new PC with a recordable DVD drive.

1.) Can almost all of them record movies from my vhs vcr with standard
cables of some type?
No; you need a video capture card/device.
2.) Can I copy a movie DVD (e.g. a purchased Concert DVD)? How does a person
bypass the copy protection? I probably would only do this for concert DVD's
on rare occasions when I don't have time to finish a movie, or to save
favorite parts of a concert video.
AFAIK, only with special electronic devices and/or hacking.

--
E-mail address is fake. Please reply to the group!

 

[Captain Dondo]

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 00:07:43 -0300, Chaos Master wrote:

Acousticat mumbled:
Hi, I'm looking to buy a new PC with a recordable DVD drive.

1.) Can almost all of them record movies from my vhs vcr with standard
cables of some type?
No; you need a video capture card/device.

Almost any cheap video capture board will do. You may need a Sima box to
capture some macrovision copy protected tapes.

2.) Can I copy a movie DVD (e.g. a purchased Concert DVD)? How does a
person bypass the copy protection? I probably would only do this for
concert DVD's on rare occasions when I don't have time to finish a
movie, or to save favorite parts of a concert video.
AFAIK, only with special electronic devices and/or hacking.

google for DeCSS. That's the library that lets you break copy protection
and localization on DVDs.

You can copy a DVD without any special tools, if you want a direct copy.
You need to break copy protection if you want to extract the movie, or
play a European CD in the US....

For region encoding, see
http://www.techtv.com/callforhelp/answerstips/story/0,24330,3396330,00.html

Be aware that depending on where you live, there may be severe legal
penalties for copying DVDs or breaking the childishly simple encoding...
Thank the Hollywood greed for that...

visit http://www.mplayerhq.hu and see how it's done.

-Dondo

 

[Mike Rivers]

In article <vjdpk4bks2r6ed@corp.supernews.com> ADDRESSmarkyoung@dchs.org writes:

Hi, I'm looking to buy a new PC with a recordable DVD drive.

1.) Can almost all of them record movies from my vhs vcr with standard
cables of some type?

Yes, but you'll need more than just the DVD drive, you'll need a video
capture card to connect your VCR to the computer. I don't know if
there are cheap ones, but I know that there are some frightfully
expensive ones. You can buy a lot of movies on DVD for what a good
video capture card will cost. Consider the time, too. It's a real-time
process - play the tape, record on the computer.

I suspect that if copying videotape to DVD is your goal, you'd get
better reliability, probably save some money, and definitely save some
hair by buying a stand-alone DVD recorder which is built for just that
purpose.

2.) Can I copy a movie DVD (e.g. a purchased Concert DVD)? How does a person
bypass the copy protection?

If we told you, there would be no reason for copy protection, would
there? However, I get at least one spam e-mail a week telling me that
I can copy any DVD on my computer. Want me to forward one to you?



--
I'm really Mike Rivers - (mrivers@d-and-d.com)

 

[Jonas Eckerman]

"Acousticat" <ADDRESSmarkyoung@dchs.org> wrote in
news:vjdpk4bks2r6ed@corp.supernews.com:

Hi, I'm looking to buy a new PC with a recordable DVD drive.

1.) Can almost all of them record movies from my vhs vcr with standard
cables of some type?

No. To do this you need a card with TV inputs suitable for the outputs from
your VCR that allows you to record the audio+video streams. Depending on
the quality you want you can get a consumer "capture card", or a more
expensiv pro card.

Note that there are, or at least there were, some TV cards that can't be
used for this. They insert the picture right into the video signal to the
monitor.

2.) Can I copy a movie DVD (e.g. a purchased Concert DVD)?

If it's not encrypted, you can copy it without cracking stuff.

How does a person bypass the copy protection?

By using an application made for this. There's a bunch of 'em out there.
Use Google, or just start reading the spam.

Note: Not all (at least among the older ones) stand alone DVD players can
play DVD-R/-RW/+RW discs.

Regards
/Jonas