Capture CableTV program

[soto_yip]

Hi Guys, I'm newbies. Please help me. Thanks in advance.

Years ago, I had recorded lots of Cable TV programs by VHS recorder. (To be honest, most are sex movies)
I would like to digitalized them in MPEG files and don't wanna keep the tape so I bought a USB external video capture box - (MIXMM) MONSTER TV P2H.
However, when all connections are done & I push the capture button, it shown up a message that "the signal is copy protected, capture failure" something like that.

Please help me how to handle this, are there any software which may help to crack or by passed this kind of copy protected signal?? OR i need to buy another capture device??

Please kindly help me for this. Thanks a lots!

[Dimmer]

If the video were copy protected, you wouldn't have been able to record it on tape in the first place. Only very old VCR models (maybe 10 or more years old) ignore analog video protection. Try to capture some other TV or video content, for example tape anything from TV and see if you can capture that. If not, than the problem is in your system or software.

The good indicator that your video is indeed copy-protected is that you can't copy it onto another modern VCR. In this case, you'll have to buy a separate device that removes Macrovision protection. It's illegal in some countries, so instead they call it "color correction box", "video stabilizer" or something similar. If you buy an internal capture card, there might be a software crack available. Here's a good site with info on capture cards: http://www.videohelp.com/capturecards.

[soto_yip]

Yeah, my VCR is over 10 years.
I tried to capture other TV programs & work perfectly.
Only the sex movie had that problems, I think they are protected.
Anyway, Thanks for your reply. And I think I will do the most stupid way to back up these VHS movies by using my Camcorder against the TV screen, then capture back to my computer. I know it's stupid but no choice.

[bb]

Is it a digital camcorder (DV), and does it have analogue input? If yes, you could connect your VCR to the camcorder and copy to tape digitally, then via firewire to the pc to a DV AVI file, then encode to DVD compliant MPEG-2. If you're lucky, your camcorder supports pass-through, so that you can directly capture to DV without recording to tape first.

Filming from the TV screen you'll get very bad results, not worth watching.

bb

[soto_yip]

Thank you very much for your suggestion.
Now i'm backing up my Travel Video, I'll do that later & let you know soon.
Thanks again.

[Dimmer]

Good, at least now you know what you're dealing with. That analogue video protection called Macrovision, so you can search the web for the methods of defeating it with your particular capture device. That's not unusual for the porn, pay-per-view cable, and most of the commercially sold VHS and DVD movies. Maybe you can borrow somewhere an internal card with cracked drivers since you only need to back up a few tapes.