Laserdisc to vcd

[mooman]

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I too have 60 laserdiscs that I am currently converting to vcd's There is no easy way - however by far the easiest and cheapest way I have found is as follows:
You need to capture in real time ie play your discs on your laserdisc player and capture the sound and vision on your pc. T do this I purchased a dazzle dvc 80 usb capture device. It is cheap. This will work without dropping frames on usb 1 as long as your pc is an xp1800 or thereabouts with 512Mb ram Use your sound card to capture the sound not the dazzle as it is pants. I use win xp and run windows movie maker to capture the video/ sound as it is a: free and b: perfectly adequate if you download the latest version. This saves the files as WMF which you can play in media player etc. To Then convert the files to VCD or DVD you need a nifty little prog called TMPGenc from Here
A word of warning this can take quite a while so a batch job before retiring to bed is the best way
Have fun.