Get yourself the following:
VirtualDub:
http://www.virtualdub.org/
Huffyuv codec:
http://neuron2.net/www.math.berkeley.edu/benrg/huffyuv.html#Changes
TV Wonder video capture card by ATI (available at your local Best Buy). The PRO version I think comes with an extension cable, may additionally support Svideo, and comes with a remote, which is fairly useless.
To backup a video tape, you'll need to disable the macrovision detection on the card or all it will record is a gray screen. I'm sure a google for macrovision "tv wonder" disable would be most enlightening.
Then you need to capture. To do that you first need to hook up those yellow red and white cables to your capture card. You may need to click the little speaker icon on your taskbar and check to see if on the recording screen, line-in is enabled for recording.
Now the reason I told you to get virtualdub and huffyuv is as follows.
Huffyuv is a codec which does LOSSLESS huffman (zip) compression on video. It is therefore really fast, but the video files it produces are huge. Why do you want a codec that compresses fast but makes huge files? Because you need to compress fast if you are to avoid missing frames when capturing. Missed frames mean jumpy video. Why not capture to uncompressed video then? Because you may not be able to capture even a half an hour of video if you don't compress it at all. Now, if you have a faster CPU, you might be able to compress with DVIX or something in realtime, but you're unlikely to be able to do so without losing some quality because you have to use the fastest settings when compressing.
Why use virtualdub when the video card has it's own capture program? Because the capture program sucks. Virtualdub captures video really fast. That means no missed frames. It also can trick the capture card, and capture 640x480 video if the card is physically capable of it, but the manufactuer has disabled it because they are jerks, like ATI has. Also, Virtualdub has great editing capabilities as far as cutting out portions of the video including indivdual frames, which is useful for removing the static before the tape begins, or for removing commercials. And, it supports filtering the images with various plugins for removing noise, resizing, and color correction.
So there you go, that's everything you need to know about capturing the video I think... I don't know about how to burn DVD's.
VirtualDub:
http://www.virtualdub.org/
Huffyuv codec:
http://neuron2.net/www.math.berkeley.edu/benrg/huffyuv.html#Changes
TV Wonder video capture card by ATI (available at your local Best Buy). The PRO version I think comes with an extension cable, may additionally support Svideo, and comes with a remote, which is fairly useless.
To backup a video tape, you'll need to disable the macrovision detection on the card or all it will record is a gray screen. I'm sure a google for macrovision "tv wonder" disable would be most enlightening.
Then you need to capture. To do that you first need to hook up those yellow red and white cables to your capture card. You may need to click the little speaker icon on your taskbar and check to see if on the recording screen, line-in is enabled for recording.
Now the reason I told you to get virtualdub and huffyuv is as follows.
Huffyuv is a codec which does LOSSLESS huffman (zip) compression on video. It is therefore really fast, but the video files it produces are huge. Why do you want a codec that compresses fast but makes huge files? Because you need to compress fast if you are to avoid missing frames when capturing. Missed frames mean jumpy video. Why not capture to uncompressed video then? Because you may not be able to capture even a half an hour of video if you don't compress it at all. Now, if you have a faster CPU, you might be able to compress with DVIX or something in realtime, but you're unlikely to be able to do so without losing some quality because you have to use the fastest settings when compressing.
Why use virtualdub when the video card has it's own capture program? Because the capture program sucks. Virtualdub captures video really fast. That means no missed frames. It also can trick the capture card, and capture 640x480 video if the card is physically capable of it, but the manufactuer has disabled it because they are jerks, like ATI has. Also, Virtualdub has great editing capabilities as far as cutting out portions of the video including indivdual frames, which is useful for removing the static before the tape begins, or for removing commercials. And, it supports filtering the images with various plugins for removing noise, resizing, and color correction.
So there you go, that's everything you need to know about capturing the video I think... I don't know about how to burn DVD's.