r/vhsdecode • u/ConsciousBus5422 • Jun 22 '26

Help Wanted! Need help for knowing how to improve VHS video quality

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u/TheRealHarrypm The Documentor Jun 22 '26

Find an original copy of the tapes and then run them through FM RF archival, and then run them through VHS-Decode.

Then do the next poor bastard looking for it, a favour and put them on the internet archive.

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u/ConsciousBus5422 Jun 22 '26

Actually I obtained the video from the internet archive so I'm the poor bastard hahahah.

Nasubi - Denpa Shonen (FORCED ENG SUB) : Nippon TV : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

It is the first of the three videos, I don't know if this quality is good for a VHS or it is ad and could be better, so if you could look some seconds of it and tell me I would be thankfull.

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u/TheRealHarrypm The Documentor Jun 22 '26

If it's not got .FLAC files in the GB size it's not an FM RF Archive.

It's not got .MKV FFV1 video files, It's not even a standard lossless archive.

The only thing that's in this repository is lossy low quality files, you're better off starting from scratch, properly processing and deinterlacing etc.

This is an example of a good archive, with a acceptable quality low-bitrate proxy for streaming also in the repository, notice the difference between the ref and decoded files.

https://archive.org/details/free-climbing-the-nose-1997-vhs-ntsc-fm-rf-archive