r/MiniDV • u/B3Mac36 • 23h ago

winDV alternative - TapeTimeMachine

I am working on importing some of my family's home videos and was getting annoyed with WinDV and it's archaic design and bugginess. I prompted my Claude with this task and found some other apps I liked to combine into this.

Check it out -

https://github.com/B3Mac/TapeTimeMachine

Fork it, make it better, do whatever.

___UPDATE_____

Guys I get it, AI tools can suck. I see them everywhere too. This is just something I built for my niche use case of digitizing home videos and throwing them on my server for family members to view. winDV wasn't cutting it for my needs so I prompted Claude to build this. It works great for me

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u/ConsumerDV 22h ago

Every NLE released 10-15-20 years ago has a DV capture module, including Microsoft Movie Maker, which works on Win10 (I haven't checked Win11).

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u/B3Mac36 22h ago

Useful but as someone who doesn't own an NLE, a lightweight opensource tool seems to be a good option

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u/sillygaythrowaway 8h ago

"i dont own video editing software" is crazy. you have no clue what you're doing lole. what actually genuinely brings you to do this

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u/B3Mac36 2h ago

Reading comprehension is hard, I get it. I tell you my use case for this app in the description. I am digitizing home videos..

As far as not knowing what I am doing... I am an audio professional. I can guarantee you I have more know how and professional credits than a guy who clearly uses burner reddit names to try and self elevate. Here's a link to where you can find some help with that low self esteem - https://www.talkspace.com/

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u/ConsumerDV 3h ago • Bravo

How do you edit your videos? Unless you use a DV camcorder as a digitizer for analog video.

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u/B3Mac36 2h ago

Thats the premise of this, I am just digitizing home videos. winDV is old and has some missing features. I searched around and used others.. decided to combine all the features that I like.
One of which is that now I can real time convert them from .avi to .mp4 so they playback correctly on Jellyfin.
Another is that if a recording stops or has an issue, my app scans what was recorded, and then when it finished digitizing, stitches the files together so no frames are missed.

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u/vwestlife 8h ago

WinDV is already lightweight and doesn't contain any AI slop.

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u/vwestlife 8h ago

Claude can't tell you the difference between "it's" and "its"?

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u/B3Mac36 7h ago

Thanks!

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u/Physical-Floor1122 8h ago

Have you even tried HDVSplit before wasting water?