12:28 PM - Discord
Geraldy, are you copying home videos from camcorders? You are copying VHS tapes which were recorded from VCRs? Roy, should we kill Brooks right now? Geraldy, I would write down a list of VCR settings which includes the different recording modes like XP, SP, LP, EP, etc. Geraldy, it is critical to know details relating to the VCRs, the VHS, the recording settings, involved. It is critical to write it all down on paper and on computers. Geraldy, the highest recording mode on VCRs has generally been XP which means one or two hours of recording time per VHS tape. You could tell me how many hours long each VHS tape is. I would try to find details relating to the VCRs which were originally involved. But another thing to consider is the original settings and details relating to the input meaning the specifications of the video that was coming into the VCR at the time of the recording. The original quality of the input into the VCR should be the first thing to know. Except we are talking analog and not digital. Analog may not have 1080p technically speaking. 320 is the number. I have seen that number. If VHS is at 320 pixels horizontally as opposed to it being 720 pixels, then that means it is under 720p is my theory, my assumption based on that. Therefore, a VHS tape with that probably only needs a 480p digital copy or maybe even 360p. I would say you probably don't need to go higher than 320 if 320 is all that there is in the original copy. Agreed, 24-29 FPS is pretty normal. I have a VCR DVD combo recorder. I copied many VHS tapes directly to DVD via these combo machines over the years. Geraldy, can you tell us the originally quality of the input that went into the VCRs at the time of the recordings? Was your Philips VCR a 4-head? I don't know if there are VCRs that record higher than 320. I don't know what the exact pixels ratio VHS may be at. Geraldy, how many hours long is each VHS tape of yours? I have never seen this D5 HD machine before. Details. Some may say a digital copy of VHS should be at 352x480 pixels. I am not sure if I can confirm this or not. I can assume if a VCR is at 320, then 352 is higher than 320 which is good. 480 x 360 (360p) is probably a good resolution for converting VHS to HDD or to DVD. I don't know if VHS could go higher than 360p. I'm going to assume anything before 1999 to be probably under 360p. One guy suggested 640x480. I think that is 480p. That is probably too high. 360p is probably high enough. I would want to look at the details of the VCR before coming up with a number that might be too small. If your VCR came from North America, then it is most likely NTSC and not PAL. It is critical to know if it NTSC or PAL. Roy shared this video: The Impossible Feat inside Your VCR.

Understanding Law

02:32 PM - Discord

People may disagree on what and how law should be. Regardless, people should at least come together in analyzing and archiving how law has been. That is fundamental to ongoing debate, decisions.

05:28 PM
What perplexes me is I have a hard time trying to understand what Roy wants. I don't know who Roy is talking to when Roy pretends to be talking to me. It is insane. Because Roy is not really talking to me. Roy could be insane. Possible. Is Roy on the left? Roy said he watches the Alex Jones Sandy Hook trials. I am not sure how much of it he actually sees. It is sometimes hard to say if he is being deceptive or if he is simply unaware of many things. @GeraldyJones65#0708, if you can tell me as much as you can on your VHS tapes, that would help me see what you have. I mean the VCR. You mean you're not trying to do the VHS project right now? The easiest way to do it is with a VCR DVD combo. That might be the fastest, easiest, and best way to do it. Did you say you have a cable that connects your VCR to your computer? @GeraldyJones65#0708, if you can connect your VCR to your computer, then the next step would be can you see the VCR appear on your computer? Based on what wrote earlier, the answer might be no. I just want to be clear. I just want to make sure I know where you are. The only thing that matters to me is understanding what you have done. Have you ever copied VHS to HDD? I don't care if you're working on this right now or someday. I just want to simply talk about it. Your next step would be to make sure the cable can carry the video from the VCR to the computer. You would probably need to do some tests to verify video can make it into the computer. There are different types of VCRs which could cause problems. Different types of cables. Different types of computer sound cards, programs. Different variables. So, navigating all of these details may take some time to sort out. That is why I ask so many questions. Because I have been doing this for 18 years. We could either talk about the details or you can experiment a bit to see what might work. I would recommend a VHS DVD combo machine. What you do depends on how well of a job you want to do. I cannot guarantee how good of a copy you can make with a VHS DVD Combo without first studying the details. But I can say the copies are generally good. When I make copies on VHS DVD combo machines, I put the DVD length & quality setting to XP or whichever is the highest and that is generally a total of one or two hours per DVD. I've encountered problems when I try via record to lower settings.

Converting analog into digital is a deep subject. If you thought the audio aspect to it is tricky, you should look at video. I say this because it's critical to understand the different aspects to digital video. I've mentioned some of them before. Some of the different aspects of digital video may include video formats, codecs, frame rate (FPS), color depth (bit depth), lacing (interlacing or other options), bit rate (relating to video quality, BBP), pixels resolution (dimensions, ratio aspect), video compression or rawness, bits per pixel (BBP), NTSC or PAL, etc. Some of these might be synonyms, sub-categories. Many different things. Perhaps I've not mentioned all the parts, aspects, things. When digitizing analog video, you might convert video into a problematic format. If that happens, then you may end up spending even more time trying to convert your now digital video into other video formats and what have you. One problem is that it takes time to resolve. But another problem would be an inferior digital video format could mean a lost of audio quality, video quality. You might lose video frames during the converting process from analog to digital for example. The size of the file may be a factor. Just the process of converting analog to digital could be problematic. There are many variables. Many things can go wrong. Photo format: PNG. Within a video format, be it MP4, AVI, MOV, and more, you may find sub-formats or like formats within those formats. Kind of hard to explain. But for example, one of them would be H.265. I think it is refer to as a video codec or coding responsible for video compression which basically means smaller video file size. Think of it sort of like a zip file. Maybe not exactly like that. But it is in that direction.