My grandparents are downsizing there collections of turds and gold and they want their homemade movies archived. I was thinking of a component capture card with obs. What would be a good capture card or a better way to archive?

UPDATE 1: So, my DVD vhs combo was a total piece of shit and ate my Addams family Vhs tape!!! I found a vhs player that works and looks pretty decent.

I bought a black magic intensity pro capture card (BMDPCB41G1) but I’m struggling to get the driver to recognize the card, I tried win10 but I’m gonna try Ubuntu and an older 4th gen intel motherboard. This is all I have for now, any help would be cool.

  • @hatedbad
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    41 year ago

    I realize I’m late to this thread, but if you’re serious about archiving a VHS in the best manner possible, you have to go the RF capture route: https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode

    This method effectively captures the “raw” signal stored on the tape, allowing you to convert it after you’ve captured it however you see fit. You don’t have to worry about cheap digitizers/capture cards/etc distorting the signal.

    • @Mcballs1234@lemmy.mlOP
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      21 year ago

      Looks pretty cool, I’m struggling to get the black magic drivers to recognize the card. I might try something like this.