Bad color with S-video - vhs capture [Samples!]

[Keckis]

Hey guys!

I'm kinda new to this with capturing vhs tapes. I've gotten myself a Leadtek Winfast TV2000 XP deluxe capture card to use for capturing (also got an EasyCap, but guessing the capture card is way better).
I had to by an adapter to use to connect my cables from the vhs player.
The card has 6 miniDin, so i bought this adapter (http://www.webbshoppen.se/PartDetail.aspx?q=p:344066). Now, to my problem.
When using the svideo i get really wierd colors, and can hardly see anything.
I've used the Cyberlink PowerDirctor, but it's the same result with other programs, like Dscaler. But if I use the composite connection, it get (what I guess is good picture) good picture.
Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be?

And perhaps i should ask, will it make any difference if i use the svideo part of the adapter, picture-quality-wise? I use from the vhs player a scart that becoms either a svideo connection or rca.

The OS is Windows XP 64bits.

Will provide samples, uploading them right now to youtube!
And here they are! The bad svideo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Viy6Avr2MWI)- the "good" composite (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeViv3ltDcI)

Would be really glad if someone might give me some clues, anything is appreciated!:thanks:

[Ghitulescu]

The connector is marketed as TV-out but you use it as TV-in. Cut the S-Video cable and reverse the pins ;)

[Keckis]

You gotta be.. According to the seller, he thought it might work anyway! But hey, i've probably shown have figured it out.. How come the RCA part of the adapter work then if it's a tv-out?

And you are not serious about cuttin' the cable.. right? :)

[Ghitulescu]

You can't go wrong with a cable having 1 wire :p

Was a half-joke: sometimes the manufacturers, in their quest for marketshares and control, slightly modify the hardware, so you would be forced to buy from then a cable for 35€ :p instead of paying say 0.50€. I said cut the cable not the adapter.

I've reread the OT: you said you have a VHS. VHS doesn't have S-Video output (none to my knowledge), maybe this is the issue. Only S-VHS decks have S-Video I/O.

[Keckis]

Yes, i hate it when they can't stick to an already widely spread standard instead of making their own.. Yes, probably that's the issue then. Anyway, I think composite will do just fine :) Or is it a big difference between s-video and composite? Im converting a handball game from vhs to pc.

[dannotto]

Hard to see from vhs source. Without S-VHS player, S-Video connection is useless.

[Ghitulescu]

Yes, i hate it when they can't stick to an already widely spread standard instead of making their own.. Yes, probably that's the issue then.
It's only now when the average consumer sees that the standards are no longer public and deviate from the well-known term so bad that they don't deserve anymore to be called standards.
I'm not referring here specifically to Composite/S-Video issues, but to various connectors and protocols, as a general statementAnyway, I think composite will do just fine :) Or is it a big difference between s-video and composite? Im converting a handball game from vhs to pc. It's only you who decides on this issue. Quality is personal (expectations, perception, experience). In my view there's a difference.
Hard to see from vhs source. Without S-VHS player, S-Video connection is useless.
It's not useless, it's inexistent. S-VHS and VHS have the same internal format, there's nothing that would prevent the VHS-VCR from using S-Video, it's simply not there. S-VHS VCRs would output S-Video from a VHS exactly as they would do with an S-VHS cassette.