The VideoLAN Forums

Thanks for replying. I no longer have my Windows PC, as I have replaced it with a Mac. I have Parallels, which runs Windows 7 under the Mac OS, but this is a hassle. Do you know if Dscaler or Virtualdub will work on a Mac? Also, VLC does not seem to do on conversions on a Mac, or am I missing someth...

Dear VLC_help, I'm not sure if there's miscommunication here, as I'm not sure what you mean by "capture". I assume that I've already captured the videos with Windows Media Center (WMC), when I recorded the videos from my VHS player onto the PC. I now have these "dvr-ms" files tha...

Thanks for replying. Does DVRMSToolbox do a better job than VLC?

What should I use instead of MPEG-1? A friend who is familiar with video file formats recommended it. It's supposed to help preserve the highest quality, which is what I want to do.

With Windows Media Center (WMC), I recorded VHS videos. WMC creates files with the "dvr-ms" extension. I want to convert these to MPG format, so that I can play the videos on my Mac. I used VLC 1.1.11 on Windows to convert these files. When I played the MPG files with VLC (on Windows or Ma...

Lotesdelere: Thanks for replying. So, are you saying that if I want to maintain the highest qualify, I should change the CRF from 23 to 18? I tried this (with h.264, Bitrate = 0, Framerate = 0) and I got a file that is 104,886 KB in size. A friend told me that for best quality large file size, use m...

I’m converting my VHS videos to files that I can store on my computer. I captured them using Windows Media Center (WMC). Then I’m using VLC to convert the WMC files to MP4. I converted the file with the default settings in VLC (Profile = "Video - H.264 + AAC (MP4)"), and the output looks g...