torpare
18th October 2008, 09:54
Hi,
For a long time I've been struggling to capture from VHS tape to .avi, without success. I've used mostly VirtualDub, but also VirtualVCR.
I began by using the 'TV in' connection on my Asus V9520/GeForce FX5200 graphics card (which I found to have a Philips capture chip), with NVidia's capture driver. I couldn't get either VDub or VVCR to work at all.
Recently I dug out the Avermedia A761C DVB-T card I'd retired some time ago and installed it in a Shuttle PC with on-board graphics (GeForce4 MX), 500 MB RAM, Athlon XP2500+ The Aver has a Conexant 878A chip. I installed the btwincap drivers for this, and I'm using VDub.
At least I can now see a preview, and I can capture (with no dropped frames, on a short test clip anyway). Trouble is that the video I capture is junk:eek: -to call it "stuttery" would be the understatement of the year. On double-clicking on the file to play it back in MPC, instead of MPC I got the attached 'AVI Chunk Viewer', which mystifies me but may give clues to the experts. For the heck of it I also used Graphedit to bring up the filter chain VDub was using (attached); I thought it might be useful:cool: To my inexpert eye it seems strange that VDub seems to be using the Conexant 'Tv Audio' filter as the (only) source for what is output from the crossbar filter as video. I have the Conexant Video driver installed as well but VDub doesn't seem to be using it. (But I don't understand what Graphedit is telling me either).
Can anybody suggest where my problem might lie?
For a long time I've been struggling to capture from VHS tape to .avi, without success. I've used mostly VirtualDub, but also VirtualVCR.
I began by using the 'TV in' connection on my Asus V9520/GeForce FX5200 graphics card (which I found to have a Philips capture chip), with NVidia's capture driver. I couldn't get either VDub or VVCR to work at all.
Recently I dug out the Avermedia A761C DVB-T card I'd retired some time ago and installed it in a Shuttle PC with on-board graphics (GeForce4 MX), 500 MB RAM, Athlon XP2500+ The Aver has a Conexant 878A chip. I installed the btwincap drivers for this, and I'm using VDub.
At least I can now see a preview, and I can capture (with no dropped frames, on a short test clip anyway). Trouble is that the video I capture is junk:eek: -to call it "stuttery" would be the understatement of the year. On double-clicking on the file to play it back in MPC, instead of MPC I got the attached 'AVI Chunk Viewer', which mystifies me but may give clues to the experts. For the heck of it I also used Graphedit to bring up the filter chain VDub was using (attached); I thought it might be useful:cool: To my inexpert eye it seems strange that VDub seems to be using the Conexant 'Tv Audio' filter as the (only) source for what is output from the crossbar filter as video. I have the Conexant Video driver installed as well but VDub doesn't seem to be using it. (But I don't understand what Graphedit is telling me either).
Can anybody suggest where my problem might lie?