That's about the only thing I did well so far! Glad you asked
We own every Veggie Tale tape they came out with, and Now Jonah DVD
First I captured the VHS as an Mpeg. Then open nero and create VCD, drag mpg into file window, burn disk.
It actually can be alot harder than that though. One thing depends on size of the movie. Cartoons should be easy and shorter files.
DVDRHELP.com is a great place to get info. But for me alot has been confusing too. But that's where I been learning
For the Veggie tales tapes. They are all 30 mintues. So over sIze was not a problem. I got 2 on a disk.
First I captured from VHS to mpg using the ATI AIW 7500 in my system. I used the ATI TV program to do the capture, and used the VCD setting. This gave me a mpg file of about 350meg. I did two of these, then open nero and use create vcd. There should be some folders showning in the top box of nero. Drag the mpg into the bottom box of nero. I was able to do 2 30minute stories to one disk (650meg).
Then burn.
Doing it that way, I lost a little quality, but it was not bad. Video does have some blockyness in spots, lke rapid movements. But over all not too bad. Everyone that watched them liked them ok.
I made a couple for the kid and her friends to watch on the computer with the stero and surround 6 channel sound, since the vcr is only connected to a mono tv. They sound much better on the PC! I just bought a Norcent DP300 DVD player a couple nights ago, tried the disks and they work perfectly, no errors, though they still have the blockeyness of course.
If you can use better settings in the mpg your files are much larger, but without the blockeyness.
I am still experementing with that. With the defualt settings I got 1 hour of cartoons on one cd with some loss of video quality, and it worked well in a stand alone DVD player and several computers.
Ideally I would preffer perfect quality even with only one 30 minute cartoon per disk, but I haven't been able to do that yet. I can capture them, but nero gives a warning when I want to burn them and wants to convert them to a standard vcd. I hadn't tried ignoring Nero and burning anyway before since I did not have a DVD player to test it in. Now I will though and see what happens. They should play, I think.
You can also make SVCD. ABout the same thing, better quality movie though less time on a disk. I read some players won't play them though, which is why I have been doing VCD which many or most players should play.
