[chbot] Video DVD

[Volker Kuhlmann]

On Wed 02 Apr 2025 17:43:11 NZDT +1300, Marshland Engineering wrote:

> 1: Suggestions on a Video to digital converter hardware for the old tape
> player.

VHS tape? Other tape? Maybe there's not a lot of difference.

Those cheap VHS digitising gimmicks from Jaycar etc ($80?) are primarily
cheap. For VHS it might not matter to digitise all the noise at high
resolution, but your camcorder may have had much better quality.

> 2: I'm not sure why but the DVD have MOV files and there seems to be many
> duplicated clips in the various files.   

The DVD contains a standard ISO9660 filesystem IIRC, maybe with some
minor extensions. mkisofs (Jörg Schilling, not the Debian bitfluff) can
create it. Files have .VOB extensions for video, and there are .BUP and
.IFO files. The menu structure and text info should be in those two.

MOV is a proprietary apple format. I'd expect DVD to have essentially
MPEG4 content regardless of what the file is called. Players may acept
other extensionsand formats, dunno.

> 3: Any suggestions on auto chapter software. Doing it manually takes so much
> time.   

Yep. Human content, human interpretation...

> Hopefully I can find one now.

Uhhmm. Maybe there isn't an automated one, which is why there's no
software for it? We can always hope.


I have a pile of VHS tapes that need dealing with, so I'm really
interested in some solutions too.

Volker

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