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It seems like this topic was covered a long time ago, but I can't seem to find it.
A KJ friend of mine wants to have the old Pioneer laser collection transferred over to DVD.  I can capture video and audio on my computer, but I'm wondering what file format to use for the transfer that could be played on a DVD compatable JVC karaoke player (can't recall the exact model number)? File format to use -- MPEG, standard DVD VOB files, Divx compression.....? Any ideas for the other assorted video quality parameters?

Hey Odie. I am not sure about computers but what I did was purchase one of those DVD burner with HDD in it from Pioneer. It cost about $250 or so and it worked great for me. It's just time consuming. What I did was connect my LD player to the DVD burner directly. Hit play on the LD player and hit record on the DVD recorder. The only thing you have to do is to set chapter mark manually since the signal is coming in from analog source. You can do it fairly easy using the HDD function. Then you just burn the DVD. I did about 50 Karaoke LDs and transfered them to the DVD and they work flawlessly.

As for the formats on the computer, I would not use mpeg or divx. I think the DVD VOB files is most compatible without any other compression schemes.

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Thanks Eben for the advice.  Yeah, if their JVC karaoke player is capable of playing DVD and doesn't require MPEG, AVI, etc video files on a disc, I could just bypass the computer method completely and use my stand-alone Panasonic DVD recorder instead. Just record onto DVD-R, that's probably the most compatable disc format.

BadDog and Matt did the conversation. I think BD's file is huge and uncompressed while Matt's collection fit into a smaller HDD.

Oop you ask diff question, LD >DVD and not LD to Hdd

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Pioneer made about 25 DVDs and quit before doing the entire set.    Screwing everyone that started to buy the DVD set.      I am putting them on a hard drive, in Mpeg format.     Side by side they look as good as the Laser discs.     Takes 400 gigs to get 2000 songs on it.    In real time, it's an hour a side.      For 90-100 discs, 200 hours.  :shock:  Really big files.    It's worth it quality wise.     You will need 2 gigs of processor to run them right without glitching.

If one was going to spend the time doing a real time transfer, I would do it to a hard drive.   Then you could make whatever you want from there.  :O