We are very lucky because nowadays virtually all decoder chips available on the market can decode all TV systems in the world.

So, if you want to convert a VHS recorded under SECAM system, you need to play it on a SECAM-compatible VCR. Video card with VIVO function have only the video decoder chip.Īs you may have already heard, there are several different video signal coding systems in the world, including NTSC, SECAM and all flavors of PAL. Video capture cards have two major components: a TV and FM tuner and a video decoder chip, as you can see in Figure 1. We need to spend a moment explaining how the video capture card works, to avoid common misconceptions. The video capture card is the heart of the conversion and it can be internal (the kind we will be talking about), external (installed on a USB or FireWire port, allowing you to use even a laptop instead of a desktop PC for this process) or integrated on your video card (VIVO, Video In, Video Out). Video capture/editing and DVD authoring programs (they usually come with the video capture board more on that on part 2 of our tutorial).This is the same cable used to connect a Discman to a stereo. Audio cable (only if a video card with VIVO feature is used, this cable has two RCA male connectors, one red and one white, at one end and a 3.5 mm stereo mini jack at the other end).Audio/Video cable (this is a cable with three RCA male connectors at each end, one yellow, one red and one white).A VCR (a stereo “6-head” VCR is highly recommended), system-compatible with the video system under which the VHS tapes were encoded.A video capture card or a video card with VIVO (Video In, Video Out) function installed on it.Enough available space on HDD (minimum of 10 GB recommended) – if you are going to work professionally with this we recommend you buying a high capacity, high performance HDD just for storing the video files.

Vcr to dvd conversion hardware