Where to I find a cable to go from my vcr to my pc?

Question

Where to I find a cable to go from my vcr to my pc?

Answer 1

Hopefully you have Composite and Stereo output on your VCR. They'll be Yellow, Red, White. But you need companion Yellow, Red, and White inputs on your PC. If you don't have a TV card or a video card with these inputs, you won' t be able to connect to your VCR.

Also, depending on your hardware, you'll need software to recognize the incoming signal so you can encode it to MPEG, MPEG2, MPEG4, DivX or similar format. I you have the inputs on your PC, than you should have an application that works with it. I think that Windows XP Media Center Edition has the native capability to recognize the incoming video. I use WinTV2000 or Virtual VCR.

An Yellow-Red-White to Yellow-Red-White RCA cable is very common and available at just about any electronics store.

Finally, don't forget that if you try to record factory movie tapes (you aren't supposed to do this) that a signal on the tapes will cause you to get poor quality recordings.