Commercial Usage

Commercial Usage

Can I use vhs-decode commercially?

Yes, but providing of FM RF archives over just video files is highly encoraged if providing an honest service with this workflow as it's what brings the most value of FM RF archival method to the end user/holder of the media.

Are there licensing fees?

No, we do wish for appropriate credits in any production use, if you are using this suite and its freely provided resources are employed.

Supporting the project and its maintainers is always encouraged. Donations.

Is the suite commercially viable for production usage?

Currently from an archival & preservation perspective.

Capture is fully viable as of 2023 with ''add-in'' integration into existing SDI & PCIe based workflows ideally on a separate workstation or server solution with RAID or SSD based ingest discs, and FLAC compression to cold storage.

VHS & LaserDisc decoding is production ready with cross platform support via direct building or binary applications.

Please See Diagram Visuals for full-scale breakdowns and workflows.

Decoding is an ever-evolving part of the project, while it beats all off-shelf solutions today, decoded data, however, should not be considered a final product as each year new improvements can make drastic differences.

Only the FM RF data can be considered a final archive if a good capture is obtained.

Is there support for commercial use?

The community and developers are across multiple time zones so support is available, alongside 4 years of searchable data that can be looked up inside the DD86 Discord server.

Any hardware aquired though the kofi store will have support if you encouter issues outside of the documentation.

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