VHS to DVD Recording

[Dangerous Dave]

Howdy,

How do you link up a VHS player to a DVD recorder?

My old man has left me a message thinking I have a clue as to what to do, which I don't. Basically he has an old video which he wants to turn into a DVD, however when he turns on the DVD recorder it instantly cuts out the video player on the TV screen and leaves the DVD recorder recording static.

Any help will be appreciated...

[Viney]

I take it that its an all in one jobbie? If so, it will not work. You will need a seperate Video and DVD recorder. You will need a scart to RCA lead. Scart in the back of the video going into the Video(yellow) and audio (Red and white) inputs of your DVD recorder. Set the DVD recorder to AUX input or whatever its called on the unit, and it should record fine

[Gazza77]

I take it that its an all in one jobbie? If so, it will not work. You will need a seperate Video and DVD recorder. You will need a scart to RCA lead. Scart in the back of the video going into the Video(yellow) and audio (Red and white) inputs of your DVD recorder. Set the DVD recorder to AUX input or whatever its called on the unit, and it should record fine

Not necessarily true. My in laws have a Panasonic all in one jobbie and it can record from VHS to DVD. Don't ask me how because I don't know (never done it), but I've seen it done and it's all in the operating instructions.

If seperates, Viney's instructions look ok to me.

[maviczap]

Depends if its a pre recorded video. If it is, then its likely that it has Macrovision protection to stop you doing this. Most DVD & Hard drive recorders detect this about 5sec after you've started the recording, even via the aux sockets at the front. Which is maybe why your machine cuts out the video player.

I would think that most combi VHS/DVD recorders still have to have Macrovision removal in the chipset, otherwise you couldn't play any prerecorded tapes.

This is how SKY prevent you from recording movies on their movie channels too.

To get around this and how I converted a load of my Pre recorded videos was to buy a Macrovision busting scart lead and connect it via a modulator which I got from Maplin, using a seperate VHS player.

The purpose of the modulator was to connect the scart lead from the VHS, which then converts it to the three coloured leads (yellow, red & white) to plug into the front aux sockets.

Then record as normal! I use a Hard drive recorder and then burn to a DVD-RW, which I can then transfer to PC to edit and add menus

I got my Macrovision lead on EBAY, but beware, some don't work.

Hope that helps

[Dangerous Dave]

You will need a scart to RCA lead. Scart in the back of the video going into the Video(yellow) and audio (Red and white) inputs of your DVD recorder. Set the DVD recorder to AUX input or whatever its called on the unit, and it should record fine
Cheers Viney, I will pass it on.

Oh... yeah, they are two separate devices.