I have some Laserdiscs I got at a flea market and I wish to turn them into divx. I know laserdisc is digital format but I can't find any computer drives for them (they are too big to fit in a drive space). I know there are anolog players but I don't have a capture card and anolog video has a irratating quality problem when turned into divx. These laserdisc movies aren't available on DVD. Can anyone point me to a external Laserdisc drive for a computer? Or how to digitally rip it?
Laserdisc digital ripping
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You can't digitally rip a laserdisc. The video is stored in an analog format as opposed to DVD's digital format. You would have to use a capture card. -
Originally posted by Mark Madness
You can't digitally rip a laserdisc. The video is stored in an analog format as opposed to DVD's digital format. You would have to use a capture card.Comment
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It has the pits and lands of any other optical disc but the information is luminance, chrominance, sync etc... properties of a composite analog video instead of video compression algorithms on a DVD. That is why you get video noise off of a laserdisc.Comment
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Nope, the video is NOT digital, but the sound IS. The sound is separate from the picture. You can do what I do:
Buy a cheap LD Player off of Ebay
Connect it to a Capture card - I use ATI all in wonder (works nice)
Catpure the sound with composite
Capture the video using the S-video port for better resolution.cplevel42@attbi.comComment
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