Re: [FFmpeg-user] How to fix old video with ffmpeg command line

2022-01-02 Thread Stephen Liu via ffmpeg-user
Hi Robert, Thanks for your help.  The complete video is not so back but only certain sections not clear. The video was ripped on DVD from VHS tape by a profession shop in .vob format.  The VHS tape was duplicated by me from V8 tape long time ago.  I still have the original V8 tapes in good cond

Re: [FFmpeg-user] How to fix old video with ffmpeg command line

2022-01-01 Thread Robert Jeffares
Hi Stephen, that clip is pretty low resolution according to VLC. My son works in a video duplication and grading place which delivers broadcast and cinema dubs and he says V8 is good quality. I will say this. The light source is to the side of the people. There is not much front light, so o

Re: [FFmpeg-user] How to fix old video with ffmpeg command line

2021-12-31 Thread Stephen Liu via ffmpeg-user
Hi Robert, Thanks for your advice. Those are old VHS and V8 cassette tapes.  I haven't played them for long time since the VHS player and Video camera broken down, leaving me no device to play them.  They are well packed in boxes and stored in cabinet. Before, they worked well on CRT monitor

Re: [FFmpeg-user] How to fix old video with ffmpeg command line

2021-12-31 Thread Robert Jeffares
Hi Stephen, there is a basic rule in the broadcast industry: Garbage in; Garbage out! How did the videos look before you sent them in to the professional duplication shop? Ideally you have the Video 8 recorder. Put the tape in and play it out over a reasonable size monitor. If the video is