vhs to dvd

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got a new sony vaio with media center, my intent was to copy the vhs to
harddrive, then to dvd.
with no operator's manual for the media center thing's have not been
easy.
to transfer vhs to hardrive, so far, for a 'manual' recording, it
handles the imput as a tv show. if the tape is two hopurs long i have
to find a tv station with a show a least two hours long, or it will
truncate the copy when the scheduled show ends. well having worked
around all my truncated copies my copied vhs tapes now have complete
shows.
i can burn to dvd the copied shows, but the shows are in some type of
ms propietary format. no problem with a simple drag and drop one of
the ms apps converts it to mpeg2. however, the created dvd seems to
put sometype of 'wrapper' around the video file. a 'dir' of the dvd
does not reveal the video file name.
any assistance would be appreciated. i just got this system so i
haven't been able to fully explore all its features.

thanks
dennis quinn

 

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Try windows media home page,downloads,in the scroll bar,select,windows
media encoder,download it,its utilitys,also get the codecs.With the encoder,
you can convert the files much easier,the CAP utility gives you preview,press
on the Help tab for details and info.

"exmarine@earthlink.net" wrote:

> got a new sony vaio with media center, my intent was to copy the vhs to
> harddrive, then to dvd.
> with no operator's manual for the media center thing's have not been
> easy.
> to transfer vhs to hardrive, so far, for a 'manual' recording, it
> handles the imput as a tv show. if the tape is two hopurs long i have
> to find a tv station with a show a least two hours long, or it will
> truncate the copy when the scheduled show ends. well having worked
> around all my truncated copies my copied vhs tapes now have complete
> shows.
> i can burn to dvd the copied shows, but the shows are in some type of
> ms propietary format. no problem with a simple drag and drop one of
> the ms apps converts it to mpeg2. however, the created dvd seems to
> put sometype of 'wrapper' around the video file. a 'dir' of the dvd
> does not reveal the video file name.
> any assistance would be appreciated. i just got this system so i
> haven't been able to fully explore all its features.
>
> thanks
> dennis quinn
>
>