Transferring my VHS collection to DVD

[Guest wildpegasus]

I'm going to start transferring my VHS collection to DVD via a LMV 5005 Lite On DVD Recorder. What discs and format would be best to transfer them to?

 

Thanks for any responses.

[Jobber of the Week]

MPEG2 is native DVD video, so whatever you do it ultimately needs to be in that format.

 

For the best quality you'll want to capture to a lossless codec first and then convert that to MPEG2 with a program. Look around the ol' warez bin for TMPEGenc Pro or whatever the paid version is called, it can handle conversions to DVD videos.

 

As for what tools to then burn MPEG2 to DVD, it depends on how complex you want the DVD in terms of things like menus or features.