Hello,
First a quick preface: I'm planning on capturing/encoding a VHS video archive comprised of about 300 tapes, I think I have a rough idea regarding the workflow I will follow, but I'm still on the equipment gathering phase.
I already managed to acquire a decent VCR (PAL/SECAM JVC HR-S9700) and a (quite decent) dedicated encoding computer, but I'm either experiencing the strangest issues with 3 out of the 5 capture devices I tried, or the worst luck imaginable.
After a bit of research I got my mind settled for a
Hauppauge USB-Live2, but trying it out (S-Video input) the image I get shows as attachment #1. Tried to troubleshoot it further, thought it might have been an S-Video issue so I used composite, but experienced the same issue.
Tried using different sources, computers and even OS (attachment #1 is from a Linux laptop) to no avail.
I ended up assuming this was indeed a faulty unit and requested a replacement, such replacement arrived the next day but to my surprise it also had the exact same issue!
After a bit of digging around I managed to find a
Diamond VC500 from
Amazon UK, so I ended up ordering one.
It took a while to arrive since I'm not UK based, but when it did my eyes couldn't believe what they were seeing: EXACT same problem, only this time around color was also acting weird, as in, it was a fuzzy BW picture instead.
At this point I was starting to completely lose confidence in my ability to troubleshoot and diagnose this kind of issues, so I borrowed a cheap Chinese capture device from a friend and, to my relief, it worked out of the box no issues whatsoever, sans quality of course.
Also while all this happened I got a
Pinnacle Dazzle DVC100 from
eBay (new), it's also working alright except for a small jitter/jumpiness in the picture when used in a Win10 system (Linux doesn't seem to suffer from this issue), but that might be a topic for another thread.
So tl;dr and just out of curiosity: did I miss something setting these devices up or were they all just faulty somehow?