[MPlayer-users] Digitizing VHS tapes with mencoder

[Oliver Seitz]

> On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 01:55:38PM +0200, Josef Wolf wrote:
>
>> I am about to digitize my VHS tapes. Since this are old family
>> recordings, I'd
>> like to have the best quality I can get.
>
> Next problem is that I'd need to adjust brightness/contrast/etc/pp a
> little
> bit. I see that there are options to adjust that while capturing. But
> since
> this are old tapes (I don't want to stress them too much) and there are
> many
> different recordings on each tape (some too bright, some too dark..) I'd
> like to correct brightness/contrast/etc while encoding instead while
> capturing.
>
> Any suggestions?

Use professional hardware with the highest possible bit depth. Before
digitizing, those adjustments can be done easily and with few losses, but
when digitized, you can't leave the boundaries that were set by the
digitizer.

Greets,
Kiste