Post #1096865
2026-04-10 18:55 UTC
Replies (6)
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@glamfrenzy@toot.lgbt 2026-04-11 01:24
Hey, thanks to everyone who responded or boosted this! Learning about the EIA-608 standard was a helpful lead. I found a standalone encoder on ebay but it was pretty far out of budget. Think I'm going to bite the bullet on the capture and conversion route. Editing and organizing clips would certainly be a lot easier. I am worried about the digital conversion process harshing the analog vibe so there will probably be more questions on framerate and fidelity to come.
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@ryan@social.miyaku.media 2026-04-10 20:43
@glamfrenzy for NTSC you'd need to generate/encode an EIA-608 signal, there's a bunch of tools (like CCExtractor) available for decoding but i'm not as familiar with what's out there for encoding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIA-608
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@petes_bread_eqn_xls@mastodo.neoliber.al 2026-04-10 20:43
@glamfrenzy if anyone knows it’s @artandtechnic
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@trixter@retro.pizza 2026-04-10 20:44
@glamfrenzy I know I had access to equipment in my high school film production class that could to it, but that wasn’t exactly consumer-grade hardware. What do Video Toasters cost these days?
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@dickon@splodge.fluff.org 2026-04-10 20:46
@glamfrenzy Were they not WST Teletext on line 21 page 888?
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@wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org 2026-04-10 20:48
@glamfrenzy Pretty sure it's just a funny barcode-like thing in the blanking area of the video signal (like teletext); shouldn't be hard to generate with the right circuitry. VHS tapes are an analogue recording of the video signal, so looking up how that worked for PAL and NTSC should suffice. Edit: ah, you've already received that answer.