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Originally Posted by Lonman
No but I know someone that did transfer them down to DVD or VCD I believe. I have no clue as to how that works or how to do convert them to make them work in Hoster.
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I transfered my laser discs to mpeg 2 by recording off my laser player onto a recordable dvd player using dvdrw. I used rw's so you can the edit the disc putting chapters where the tracks would start. By now you have backed up the laser disc onto dvd. Next i used a sony vaio and DV gate software ,(DV gate free on vaio)to import them to a hard drive, I tried a lot of software to do this but the sony DV Gate reads VOB files and automaticly creates a mpeg file at each chapter point and will allow atomatic numbering eg. 301-A-01, 02,03 etc The only problem i had was in the uk we can only get (at the time) pal region recorders. Now the pause screen on the laser disc player is pal60 and the playback is ntsc so the disc recorder wold not record the two formats together. I tried several dvd recorders to do this as pal 60 is not true pal and alot of recorders would just record a rolling picture. I used a phillips dvd recorder in the end, as it was the most reliable. This may not be a problem in America as it's all ntsc. Takes along time though but three or four discs a night whilst doing something else soon goes by. The other thing to considure is file size 2500 lazer tracks Mpeg 2 good quality is 400 gig. Hoster 4.10 will allow you to import the tracks, but its just as easy to search using the current player. Tried to convert to divx just takes too long. Hope this helps.