Lazer Disc to Digital Use

[Lonman]

Yep a video capture card. A large hard drive (for good quality video/sound). A capture program, I tried several & the one that worked best for me was Snappysoft. And a lot of patience as you will be playing and naming each song individually in real time. Takes about 1 hour per side. You can do other stuff just have the speakers loud enough so you can hear the ending of the song to be able to stop the track so you don't record a bunch of unnecessary dead time.

It took me approx 200 hours total to get my laser library (about 100 discs) ripped, but it's so worth it once finished!

[TalktoRick]

Hello Lonman,
My lazer disc player has S video out, and I have a desk top XP computer with an S video in. Could I not "capture" the audio and video with the desk top? How would I import to either my Hoster laptop or external hard drive? Thanks, TalktoRick

[Lonman]

Unless you added a video capture card, the majority of stock PC's do not come with one as an option. The S-Video jack on the PC is most likely an output for extended desktop monitor.
Video capture cards will typically have both the video & corresponding audio inputs for the sound.
You can get an internal card and install it into your PC or get a USB interface that will work with both the PC or the laptop.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...&Sku=S262-7177
Once you have the songs ripped to your computer & named, you would just use Hoster import HD and use the KMH option. This will create a small file that will have the same name as the corresponding video, this will allow it to be able to be in the Hoster database for searching & book making.

[TalktoRick]

My desktop does indeed have an S video in, and RCA's in. I am having it worked on. When it is ready, would I not just hook up the lazer disc player? I think it pops up on the desktop, asking me what quality of file I want to make. I would choose the best of the options. I would send it to a 1 and a half terabyte hard drive. From there I could follow your instructions after capture. Let me know if this could work. Thanks, Rick

[Lonman]

Originally Posted by TalktoRick

My desktop does indeed have an S video in, and RCA's in. I am having it worked on. When it is ready, would I not just hook up the lazer disc player? I think it pops up on the desktop, asking me what quality of file I want to make. I would choose the best of the options. I would send it to a 1 and a half terabyte hard drive. From there I could follow your instructions after capture. Let me know if this could work. Thanks, Rick

If it truly is a capture card, then yes it should work. Selecting the 'best' option is going to create a very large file just for a heads up. The 1.5 TB drive should be large enough to handle them all. I believe I put mine in somewhat of a medium high quality state, a 3 minute song takes up approx 100+mb. I have over 2000 songs in video files that take up approx 250gb of drive space.