Off Topic Converting VHS Tapes

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Wildie

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Morning Guys,

My father in law passed away last week, and in his house were a number of VHS tapes of my wife and siblings with him when they were younger. We have managed to get the VHS playing through our TV with a Scart to HDMI converter, but want I would like to do is get them converted into mp4 files on my laptop if possible.

Has anyone done this, and if so, what adapters/converters do I need? I've looked on YT and most involve RCA cables which this VCR doesn't have the ports for - it is purely Scart
 
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If you have the converter cable you just need a hdmi capture device. They’re like a usb stick with a hdmi input, that you can use to record whatever is played through it. Then just plug it into your pc and save it on there.
 
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Put vhs to digital recorder into ebay. You'll get everything you need for about £10.99.

I did all my tapes and it worked really well. If you haven’t got AV connections on your VHS player, you can get a scart converter that will link them to the laptop.

It's really easy but time consuming as you transfer the data in real time.
 
Wildie said:
Morning Guys,

My father in law passed away last week, and in his house were a number of VHS tapes of my wife and siblings with him when they were younger. We have managed to get the VHS playing through our TV with a Scart to HDMI converter, but want I would like to do is get them converted into mp4 files on my laptop if possible.

Has anyone done this, and if so, what adapters/converters do I need? I've looked on YT and most involve RCA cables which this VCR doesn't have the ports for - it is purely Scart
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My son in law’s old work converts them from vhs to dvd discs, Don’t think it’s overly expensive, they’re in Driffield but he now lives in Spain in 20degrees lucky bugger.
 
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