VHS to MP3

Ok, I'm slowly becoming old and less computer savvy. Recently my parents dumped on me all their old VHS tapes from when I was growing up and I really want to convert them to digital format. Now I would prefer to go through a tape and divide clips into individual mp4's manually. What would I need to accomplish this? I googled "VHS to MP4" and all I get are ways to convert VHS tapes to DVD with an adapter and software, but I don't want them as a DVD format, rather just mp4's. What hardware and software would be recommended for this? Thank you for helping a slowly aging old man!

 

you can't be too old if your folks have you recorded on vhs.

 

no, i'm kidding about being old, but i'm just out of the loop on the right tools needed to do this.

 

Try YESVIDEO.COM
They did some stuff for my wife a couple years back. She did the VHS to DVD but if I remember correctly they had other options such as MP4, AVI, WAV, ect. and they would send them on a flash drive or disk.
Good Luck