Im torn. On one hand yes everything is available digitally. On the other I like having hard copies and not thinking about backing up 3 hard drives and random hard drive failure and managing an even larger library on a computer…its nice just to have the media exist. And what happens when our ability to own media disappears (which looks to be a very real possibility).
They do take up space. I may keep the ones I really like and get rid of others.
I easily have over 300. Along with dvds, but im keeping those.
There is absolutely better ways to do it, but I have an HDMI VCR and a capture card from goodwill that was $10 total.
For now its fine, I’m not burning physicals, its just bytes on a platter, I do need a VHS digitizer though.
yeah but the blue ray disks must be expensive. can’t OBS use the capture cards source directly? v4l2 or anything?
how do you make the image visible on your screen, to begin with?
My VHS player is HDMI, I feed that into an HDMI splitter (to bypass HDCP) then into a USB capture card.
OBS displays the capture card as though it were a camera input. I record this while it is playing, and export to MKV so I can add web sourced SRTs in after the fact.
I’m sure there’s a better way to do it, but this works for me.
oh that’s not bad as I though first