VHS capture flickering issue?

[javidial]

Hi,

After sometime I decided to put to good use my Panasonic NV-HS950 vcr (PAL), so I connected it through s-video to my Hauppauge USB-live2 capture card.
So far I can't get it work with virtualdub, but I was able to make it work with AmarRecTV, but the image flickers a lot.

Can somebody tell me if this is due to the lack of TBC or if the vcr is broken and need to be fixed?

Here I uploaded some small clips (next post). Maybe somebody has seen this before.

In a few days I'll received a DMR-ES15 to use as a TBC(ish). Will try to see if it gets better. If not, I'll assume the vcr is broken. Once I save more money I'll try to upgrade to a better capture card, but now I'm trying to figure out what's going on with my vcr.

Thanks again, any help will help me out a lot.
Hope this year I can upgrade the capture card to a proper one too.

video samples here

[msgohan]

Quote:

Originally Posted by javidial

Can somebody tell me if this is due to the lack of TBC or if the vcr is broken and need to be fixed?

Step 1 when troubleshooting something like this is always eliminating the computer side of things.
Connect it to a TV and see how it looks. Ideally a CRT, since flat panels need to internally convert to digital to display anything, but connecting it to any display will at least give you another data point.

[javidial]

I'll try to get somehow a CRT tv if I find one, in the meantime I'll try to view it in my normal tv.

Something else that happens its that the audio captured has a minor delay L from R channel, so it sounds like reverb or duplicated. I tried capture with the motherboard as well with the usb capture card and both sounds like Alvin and the Chipmunks.

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I tried plugging the vcr to a monitor. Also hooked a headphones directly to the rca in the vcr, and the sound is still with echo, like reverb / phasing issue I believe.

I think I should take the vcr to a repair shop

[lordsmurf]

That 610 card + lack of frame TBC may be issue here. A bit of both.

And/or perhaps the VCR.

Lots of variables at play here.

Those post was more than 1 month ago. Any progress made, or just waiting on some new gear to arrive?

[javidial]

I should receive a new vcr any day and time I’ll post results in here.