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Just because VHS goes bad, I'd suggest ripping to dvd or blu-ray (too keep the physical feel) which should get you another 15+ years of storage in a compact fashion, more If kept properly (my ps2 games still work after 23 years, is my source on that).
My uncompressed rips (via OBS) from VHS are around 35 GB, perfect use case for a BD-R.
I know I'll probably get shit for this comment because "optical media bad" but I don't care.
there must be a better way than screen recording. I think you are using way too much bitrate that way
There is absolutely better ways to do it, but I have an HDMI VCR and a capture card from goodwill that was $10 total.
For now its fine, I'm not burning physicals, its just bytes on a platter, I do need a VHS digitizer though.
yeah but the blue ray disks must be expensive. can't OBS use the capture cards source directly? v4l2 or anything?
how do you make the image visible on your screen, to begin with?
My VHS player is HDMI, I feed that into an HDMI splitter (to bypass HDCP) then into a USB capture card.
OBS displays the capture card as though it were a camera input. I record this while it is playing, and export to MKV so I can add web sourced SRTs in after the fact.
I'm sure there's a better way to do it, but this works for me.
oh that's not bad as I though first