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by ecrwn

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This morning I was asked to convert a VHS tape to MP3. I thought MP3 was mainly for audio not video. Can this even be done?
Thanks.

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by jmgarvin

You'll just lose the video.

If you want to convert it to video, there are a ton of video codecs out there (depending on the quality that you want), but if you want to post it on the web, I recommend you convert it to flash. If you want to have the sameish quality as the VHS I'd recommend something like MPEG-4 or DivX

by older mycroft

MP3 is a Music Producers codec Mk III - it has no capability for visual image storage.

by jmgarvin

That's exactly what I said. You can pull the VHS tape into MP3 format, but you lose the video.

by captbilly1eye

Could the request have actually been to convert it to MP4, MPEG, WMV or something else?

Because... you are right... MP3 is audio only.

DivX and AVI are popular formats for making DVDs.
and then there's the Flash Video format used by YouTube - FLV.
plus many others too numerous to list here.

by ecrwn

Thank you all for your comments. No, I was SPECIFICALLY told to convert it to MP3. I was relatively sure that MP3 was for audio files, not video but I wanted to get some feedback before replying to this person.
Once again, thank you for our replies.

by captbilly1eye

Glad we could help.

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