How to Put DIGITAL FILES on a VHS TAPE!

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Жыл бұрын

Have you ever wanted to put a digital file or a KZfaq video on VHS for some reason? Watch this video to find out how to do this (kinda useless, but cool) task!
THINGS YOU’LL NEED (other than a TV, VCR, and a computer/laptop)
Dongle I used - a.co/d/j7MOiFz
Composite cables (x2) and HDMI cable (x1) - look around your house idk
Blank VHS tapes - eBay or Goodwill or your basement
VHS cases (library style cases) - www.ebay.com/itm/204112540456
HDMI2AV adapter - a.co/d/1nuIx5Z
Need an AV2HDMI adapter? Watch this - • Playing VHS Tapes on a...
VHS cover art template - drive.google.com/file/d/1UIhM...
My vlog VHS cover art (use as an example) - drive.google.com/file/d/1O-pT...
Pixlr - pixlr.com/editor/
Happy tape playing!

Пікірлер: 149

@harveykorso Жыл бұрын

This man just addressed his viewers via a VCR tape being played on a monitor in his dorm room. It had me contemplating the time and space continuum. I Don't even know what to say. This is peak nostalgia craze.

@IanMeyersBHP Жыл бұрын

Best comment of 2023 so far

@AshtonGodbout 5 ай бұрын

lol 😂

@vincec5120 4 ай бұрын

Hey. What type of paper did you use? What type of printer?

@S.F.Sorrow Жыл бұрын

the entire vlog series on vhs??? holy shit what a dream come true

@Nakura-dj8mg Жыл бұрын

I had a retro games collection and a mini CRT TV to play them with. I stumbled upon a KZfaq channel that has a lot of early 2000s and mid 90s shows with commercials and everything and wonder "I wonder if I stream these onto my VHS player for a bit better picture quality and nostalgic feel" so now I'm here.

@alphabeets Жыл бұрын

The abundance of enthusiasm is contagious. 😳

@meandotheryoutubers Жыл бұрын

I was googling how to put digital files on VHS and this was the first video to pop up. This was very helpful, thank you.

@Chanselleur 9 ай бұрын

Damn, I thought you meant digital files not digital video… There’s a difference bro

@lazarx77 8 ай бұрын

Same...

@Neptunade 3 ай бұрын

Same here

@catsarethebest36 2 ай бұрын

Same lol

@frankybuttas 4 ай бұрын

I maintain a sense of we are all going to be ok when I see videos like this. A brilliant mind is, exactly that… nice video.

@wing-wing Жыл бұрын

The places the KZfaq algorithm will take you

@PeaceLoveHappyness14 Жыл бұрын

thank you for making & posting this, this actually really helped

@perplxxd 9 ай бұрын

you are criminally underrated, bro. appreciate it.

@VariationsOnFilm 10 ай бұрын

Very useful info and you did a nice job with your VHS covers in your personal collection.

@magzwashere 6 ай бұрын

Respect and appreciate the creativity of this video!! Thank you

@moonlambo5229 3 ай бұрын

Subbed. You sir could be a master story teller and have 1million subs one day. Keep honing your skills and keep making videos!

@RemiDupont 6 ай бұрын

Ha! You made a squeezed imaged VHS: 16:9 onto a 4:3 medium, it will look vertically stretched on a CRT TV. Nice job!

@B.H.O.R. 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for your contribution - Elder Alex.

@waydeparzival1951 Жыл бұрын

Cool video man!

@eltoroesteticoescareno5860 10 ай бұрын

Thanks dude I appreciate you!

@Cj_Plays_Everything Ай бұрын

I would recommend putting a black screen at the start so you can wait for the gui of the video playing software to go away before you record to the tape.

@goodmorninganime 2 ай бұрын

you crack me up bro sick vid

@telesniper2 5 ай бұрын

I had a buddy named Remus who was a hardcore computer and electronics nerd. He had a bunch of different systems: Amiga, Apples, etc (this was in the late 80s to early 90s). Now, the prize of his collection was a Zilog 8000 system that had unix ported to it. He scored it at a surplus auction. These were set up to be mini-micro-mainframes. Small as a micro computer but you'd hook a bunch of dumb terminals to it. Well he had designed a custom data storage system for this using a multi-head VCR because a REAL tape backup system would have cost a fortune. I think one VHS tape could hold about a three gigs of data, which was ENORMOUS at the time. Dude had TONS of of VHS tapes in book shelves, just loaded with tons of data. He ran a hacker/phreaker/Warez(of course) BBS also and was heavily into the demo scene for the Amiga as well. Man those were great times! Last time I saw his setup, he was got a bunch of VCRs from a school or something that was upgrading. He must have had about a dozen of them, and was working on converting them all to data units. His plan was to offer lots of concurrent storage for his BBS server.

@francesm5373 2 ай бұрын

thank u so much friend!!!!!

@davidcantu282 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for the information.

@XTRgames2024 Жыл бұрын

Underrated.

@WasabiTheInkling 8 ай бұрын

I love Vaporwave too! :)

@earlthelovebug5691 2 ай бұрын

I should give it a shot someday

@KaylaOdell-lw2px 13 күн бұрын

Thank you. Now I can put the rickroll video on a actual VHS tape and rickroll people with it.

@TheStOne1 3 ай бұрын

Why do I feel like this person lives in 2005? Nostalgia.

@AI-Hallucination Жыл бұрын

Haha recording vhs takes place in real time in space time 😂✌️ creative ❤

@lochneassa1678 11 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@EXteamium2 9 ай бұрын

Imagine putting an analog horror on a tape and then hiding it.

@RobbiePopkidcom 4 ай бұрын

very interesting thank you.

@pepsigasm8333 9 ай бұрын

THANK YOU SO MUCH THIS SAVED MY LIFE I WILL SEND U A FREE TAPE OF MY SHORT FILM IF U WANT

@ishakali8634 Жыл бұрын

Great video and you made me laugh at 4:10 "Fidgeting" quote!

@rifraf7126 4 ай бұрын

I was also born in 04, i grew up the same way as a kid! Watching movies on Vhs and also dvds!

@Chanselleur 9 ай бұрын

When I got my first PowerBook G4 a friend of mine, had a mini DV camera. I was shocked to find that plugging the mini DV camera into the power book just using S video or composite I think it was just the one single cable actually… It would let me fast forward and when I did, you could hear the tape spinning along with it, it just blew my mind that was so powerful that you could scan live. Too bad they put Intel processors in their computers afterwards they never wear that fast or efficient again.

@lazerlightsub 2 күн бұрын

yooooo, thanks

@zachwilson768 2 ай бұрын

Gonna get some King of the Hill YTPs on VHS and leave them at my parents. That will REALLY confuse my folks.

@t4aton3dud3 2 ай бұрын

I'm gonna put the boiled phenomenon on a vhs and then I'm gonna have a sleep over with a couple of friends, and then I'm gonna tell them that I found some crap in the attic and were gonna watch it. I'm gonna also get some people to wear some costume I'm gonna make and completely fuck with them lol.

@Thatcher-Davis Ай бұрын

Time to have the mandela series on vhs....

@EngineeredBricks3548 3 ай бұрын

Great! Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go put a scary video on my vhs player, thanks!

@ksaOfficial017 7 ай бұрын

Now that how you can make analog horror

@olli-pekkajuusola3068 Жыл бұрын

I like vhs-tapes and C-cassette´s :)

@BKDDY 2 ай бұрын

Do this for rare VHS, print boxes for them. EZ millionaire.

@FalseKing98 Жыл бұрын

really helpful video! is there anything we need to worry about with regards to aspect ratio? I wanna run some shots of animated footage through VHS for a nostalgic filter and I figured I'd go for 4:3 to be authentic, I assumed it would be cropped or letterboxed to 4:3 either way, but your footage seems to be widescreen which surprised me. Does it depend on the screen size you're using or were you using a widescreen VHS?

@IanMeyersBHP Жыл бұрын

If theres one thing about this whole operation that i cant confidently figure out, itd be the aspect ratio. The tv i use automatically stretches 4:3 images on even normal vhs. So i would say it depends on your computer display AND your tv display. If i wanted a 4:3 image with my setup, i would need to go into an editor and add black bars myself then record that onto tape. But thatll differ depending on the setup i would imagine. In your case i would familiarize myself with the setup you have, then record stuff using a dummy tape while fidgeting with the setting on the computer and the tv. Good luck!

@FalseKing98 Жыл бұрын

@@IanMeyersBHP thank you!! that helps a lot still! I'll test with/without black bars then, just working on ebaying all the wires I need for the setup.

@IanMeyersBHP Жыл бұрын

@@FalseKing98 let me know how it works!!

@mfbfreak 10 ай бұрын

@@IanMeyersBHP Aspect ratio on widescreen TVs has always been a bit of an issue. Even back in the days of analog TV. One possibility is to capture it with a video capturing card and display it via that, with the TV hooked up to your computer the normal way. Your TV will then 'see' a 16:9 or 16:10 signal, but you can just run VLC or whatever program you want full screen and it will keep the aspect ratio correct. Your best option is to find an actual 4:3 CRT tv, because the CRT makes video tape look a lot better than it is :)

@brianreed6812 7 ай бұрын

After several years of owning the very same office chair, I finally caved and threw it down a flight of stairs. Godspeed with making more content on a chair that is less comfortable than the floor 😭😭🫡

@octapesarini Жыл бұрын

I just use a modded PS2 with videos through usb and it works fine lol

@geggy310 5 ай бұрын

How do I make it record onto the tape in 4:3? I'm trying to put a movie on vhs but it won't record properly in 4:3 even though I ripped from a full screen dvd of the movie and switched my resolution to 800x600.

@Bogo-zh8vo 5 ай бұрын

STRAIGHT ALLY!!!

@gpowerdragon9852 3 ай бұрын

Tapes last longer than HDD drives i mean A BUDGET CHOICE FOR BACK-UP

@Speedys_gasoline 5 ай бұрын

My vcr only has 2 ports for composite cables in the front audio and video nothing is showing up when I plug it up

@Sebanek738 4 күн бұрын

I don’t want to be stupid I want to be smart boy.🐶

@laurenbaker9833 8 ай бұрын

Help! Thanks so much for the video. I have everything connected just like you've said, but on the TV I am only getting the VCR screen, not my computer screen. Here's what I have going on: RCA VCR Out on the back connected to the TV RCA input, HDMI cable connecting my computer's HDMI port on the motherboard to the output on the HDMI converter box "thingy", and a separate RCA cable connecting the input of the "thingy" to the input on the front of my VCR. When I turn on the TV to the Comp./Video input I only see the VCR screen. I have tried to change the input on the VCR but there doesn't appear to be any other options that what it defaults to. The display on the VCR says "L" or different channel numbers. I'm assuming L is the record channel. I just don't understand why I'm not seeing my computer screen on the TV. Doesn't seem right to me. Can you please help??

@thelthrythquezada8397 Жыл бұрын

I am getting closer but when I playback I don't get sound, any help would be appreciated. I did hear you say to fiddle with the sound?

@wateryflinge 9 ай бұрын

i was wondering if i could also record gameplays such as minecraft cause it captures the monitor screen? i would like to know thanks

@Emmetwatson Ай бұрын

3:24 he said inappropriate😂😂

@fayesingleton565 3 ай бұрын

Attempting to do this for a project, I’ve managed to record my laptop screen onto a VHS however when I play it back there’s no audio,, any advice? Thanks!

@markrichardson5701 Жыл бұрын

Please can you help. Everything is ready but my 16:9 film is cutting parts off on my CRT. When I crop to 4:3 it makes it worse?

@Milky-Monkey 2 ай бұрын

What settings do I have to mess with to get the sound through

@copaxan Жыл бұрын

where did u get the poster of the earth thats in front of ur laptop ?? That shit nice as hell

@IanMeyersBHP Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I bought it maybe two years ago at this point, so it has been a while, but I believe I got it from this link - a.co/d/9rFCmow

@joshuapowell1868 Жыл бұрын

Try Wiching videos online about mode switches and you might know lot more then what you think

@ricardorivas5955 5 ай бұрын

can you record on top of it again or on a tape with something for more glitch effect right?

@chrisgnarly7123 6 ай бұрын

So I’m currently hooking up to my PlayStation instead of a PC. My set up is exactly the same, I just have no video of my ps just a blue screen. But when I turn my VCR on it’s on the L1 input, and I don’t have a remote to change it to L2. If I buy a remote should changing it to L2 fix my issue

@chrisgnarly7123 6 ай бұрын

Or is there a law to switch to L2 with no remote

@JorgeDelgado10 Жыл бұрын

If I don’t a tv that has VA plugins, does that mean I have to get two of those converters just to get this to work? 😮

@Pooliscool 4 ай бұрын

could someone help please? Whenever I put the correct cables up instead of my desktop I just get a blue screen on my vcr. What do I do??

@indymudshow 11 ай бұрын

I have an issue with my laptop. I have an hdmi out and I've used it on my TV before, but only the picture has ever come thru. Never any sound.

@grogshla 10 ай бұрын

Hi Ian, Thanks so much for this tutorial mate. I have followed this and everything looks good during the setup/recording process but when I play back the VHS it is only playing in Black and White. Any idea why this may be? Would really appreciate any advice. Thanks

@mfbfreak 10 ай бұрын

Very likely dirty heads or degraded tape. If your recorder is from before the 1990s, it might also be the manual tracking adjustment. In general, most mid-late 80s and all 90s recorders are automated in that regard. To clean the heads: unplug the recorder, remove the cover, get a strip of ordinary printer paper, soak it in ethanol or isopropanol, and *very gently* hold it against the head drum with your index finger, and hold it completely still. With your other hand, give the head drum a couple of spins. You should just about feel the little black video heads come past while you spin the drum. Undoubtedly there is a tutorial on this on youtube or elsewhere on the internet, if you need to see it before you do it. With a cotton swab dipped in isopropanol/ethanol, you can scrub the audio and the erasing head which are stationary and not part of the drum assembly in most cases. NEVER try to clean the video heads on the drum with cotton swabs. They are extremely delicate, and you can easily snap them off if they get snagged by a cotton fibre. Finally, it may be a TV system difference. Make sure that all settings are set for NTSC if you live in the USA, or PAL if you live in Europe. Try out Pal B/G/... - the letter has something to do with local variants that are mostly but not completely compatible.

@tricatfilms6136 4 ай бұрын

As soon as the HDMI/AV converter goes into my VCR, the display shows color, but when I RECORD it only comes out B&W. I am 100% on NTSC (and checked the switch) and the converter is plugged into USB power.

@MarioC-xj5hq 3 ай бұрын

Can you stream Netflix and then record to VHS or have to download the file first?

@WeedGnome. 6 ай бұрын

So basically if your tv has both hdmi and av i can do it with out the adapter?

@JackSykes-j3e 5 күн бұрын

Sorry, I need some help for some reason I've done the exact same thing as you but it isn't showing on my VCR the only difference is that my VCR only accepts yellow and white cables but I've seen others do this with them and another thing is that I have the new mac os which has a HDMI port built into it so by any chance is that effecting it

@GenreFluid Жыл бұрын

I have a scart vcr but when I tried it via scart it didn't work

@joshuapowell1868 Жыл бұрын

Everything proven people like myself are making vhs tapes to be our own Disney plus everything proven people don't have to have internet to watch TV

@FearOfMoths 4 ай бұрын

Hey so I’ve done everything, however the recording is pretty darker and has made it harder to read words on screen. Is this normal? Or can I do anything to fix this issue

@jules1659 4 ай бұрын

Can this work with streaming services ? Like Netflix and Disney plus ???

@joshuapowell1868 Жыл бұрын

Great video everything proven vhs tapes don't lock up at all like internet does everything proven broken vhs tape itself is fixable with Scotch tape it starts playing again with out no problem's

@mfbfreak 10 ай бұрын

nonoNONONONO do NOT put scotch tape on video tape. If somehow it comes loose or otherwise bleeds adhesive over the tape, you can kiss your video heads goodbye. Those things are very delicate, much more than the heads in audio recorders. Tapes are easy to find, but new head drum assemblies have been out of production for much longer than the tapes, and are harder to find anyway. Don't take the risk - it's the wrong kind of thrifty. It is fine to use for a priceless tape that must be copied at any cost, but in those cases most people use a beater VCR just in case such a thing happens. Video tape splicing essentially never happens in consumer level equipment. You can find casette tape splicing blocks, copious amounts of splicers for reel to reel tape, but not a single one for consumer video tape. It was only done in the 60s with certain professional formats, but phased out rapidly.

@vincec5120 4 ай бұрын

what type of paper did you use? what type of printer?

@Snekks3244 7 ай бұрын

I have everything set up and i even tried changing the channel and changing it to L1 and L2 but nothing showed up, just the same blue screen, any way to fix this?

@DawsonLoveland-qb9bi 2 ай бұрын

Same issue

@tomyyoung2624 Ай бұрын

Rrrrr Yes

@WaffleConeProductions 6 ай бұрын

Hey man, how much would you want to do this with an 8 minute MP4 of mine shipped to the west coast?

@traptherobot Жыл бұрын

How do I get color on the tapes

@accidentalpatient4152 11 ай бұрын

I don’t have a computer do you think I could just do it off of KZfaq on a console?

@joshuapowell1868 Жыл бұрын

Do you know what a mode switch is

@ReesesPeanutDogger Ай бұрын

so is this actually recording onto the blank vhs or is the tv just acting as a monitor?

@joshuapowell1868 8 ай бұрын

What do you know about fixing broken vhs tapes

@racu. 2 ай бұрын

im so bored i genuinely came here midnight and searched for a tutorial out of curiosity, i dont have any vhs recorder or a reason to do this. but good video though

@brooksmeyers1237 Жыл бұрын

All that technical jargon at the beginning gave me a headache...🤣

@benraven9087 Жыл бұрын

Do you know how to add closed captioning to the vhs?

@FredJensen4745 10 ай бұрын

The only way would be to turn on the captions on the video and then record it…

@adamrooney517 2 ай бұрын

Any ideas how us in the UK can record on our VHS players as I've tried this and doesn't seem to work

@PITFAILED Ай бұрын

I've tried this and got the screen and audio on the TV. But when I play back after recording I only get sound and the picture flickers in and out. Any chance you went to tommys?

@adamrooney517 Ай бұрын

@@PITFAILED I don't even get the sound and picture on the tape after recording as I've tried two HDMI to AV devices and they don't seem to work regardless which way set

@rueguhh 4 ай бұрын

now put this vhs footage into digital again

@lbx9452 11 ай бұрын

Is there a way to manually change L1 to L2 on the VCR? im having that exact problem but i dont have the remote to switch them! Any help is appreciated T-T

@mfbfreak 10 ай бұрын

If there is no menu button on it (check if there are little doors that have the buttons behind it) you can't. In that case you can try the connections on the rear. Use a composite or S-video to SCART converter (those are cheap and passive) if you only have SCART on the back. If it defaults to the TV tuner, you're screwed. That said, most VCRs adhere to some kind of standard, and you should be able to find an universal remote control that works.

@lbx9452 10 ай бұрын

thanks!@@mfbfreak

@soldatdoesstuff5574 6 ай бұрын

would this work with a Ps4?

@TheDarkMastermlnd 4 ай бұрын

On you’re adapter did you use pal or NTSC?

@TheDarkMastermlnd 4 ай бұрын

I thought it would go hard to put some analog horror onto a VHS tape.

@TheDarkMastermlnd 4 ай бұрын

Another thing I tried recording but when I was done it came back black and white and I used a blank tape too

@SH1T_DRIZZLE 8 ай бұрын

I wanna put the fnaf movie on it

@gooner4dante Жыл бұрын

any idea how to do this with a vhs plus VCR tv

@IanMeyersBHP Жыл бұрын

Honestly I'm not sure. Maybe you can get away with using just one composite cable in that case? Maybe use one composite cable going out into the HDMI2AV adapter, then the HDMI cable going into your laptop?

@mfbfreak 10 ай бұрын

Varies per TV. The composite connection is usually only an input. If it has a SCART connector, you can try a SCART to composite adapter with the little INPUT/OUTPUT switch - set that one to output to record the VCR's output to your PC. SCART connectors are both inputs and outputs at the same time. No guarantees that the internal connection to use the SCART as an output are made! Download the user manual for your TV, perhaps you can find something about it in there.

@lordheadass4569 9 ай бұрын

Mine records in black and white

@joshuapowell1868 Жыл бұрын

God bless you God loves you

@lutello3012 4 ай бұрын

I came here to record digital FILES to VHS, not analog video from digital video! Someone should make software that does something similar to the Danmere Backer LGR demonstrated. I've seen something like that to decode those tapes with PCM audio but it doesn't record.

@gooner4dante Жыл бұрын

so when you say fidget with it that's not working in my case

@IanMeyersBHP Жыл бұрын

Referring to the sound, you should be able to output audio through different speakers. I know I had to adjust mine from my laptop to my TV because sound wasn't recording onto the tape. You just need to mess with the settings and see what works.

@gooner4dante Жыл бұрын

@@IanMeyersBHP in this case it has the slightest bit of audio but all this buzzing is covering it up I've tried everything I can think of any help would be greatly appreciated

@IanMeyersBHP Жыл бұрын

@@gooner4dante hmm im not sure exactly what the issue would be here. Using the setup used in this video, my audio was quiet but turning up the volume easily gave me decent results

@joshuapowell1868 8 ай бұрын

What you know about fixing broken vhs tapes you need to start fixing some yourself

@joshuapowell1868 Жыл бұрын

Everything is proven vhs tapes last longer then your money does plus your phone