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Originally Posted by traal
I captured both sides of the Video Essentials Laserdisc using the VC500 if you'd like to take a look. The lossless captures are 10 and 11 GB.
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- PM me for my email.
- Email me link to a download location, using quality services (Dropbox, Google, AWS, etc), not crap (Mega, sites with countdown timers, slow speeds, etc).
- Wait. I'm busy, but I will look at it in time.
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Originally Posted by Eric-Jan
Is there any way to see before one buys such a card, (VC500) if it's a good, or bad one ?
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Nope. You have to gamble, crack it open to see components, and then test to further verify. And then you can begin to capture. (This is a hassle, and is why I started to provide hardware in the marketplace. Known working items, quality items, not flawed or bad units/models.)
traal here has run tests, trying to verify.
I've seen way to many people claim cards were "good", but samples showed all kinds of problems. With the VC500 card, aggressive AGC is just awful.
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Most of the time the answers are about what not to buy, that way it looks like there's not any good hardware to capture analog video with a computer/laptop setup…..
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This is because most questions are asking what to buy new in stores, at
Amazon, etc. Specified or not. So this idea that you can buy a shiny new card for $50 must be shot down immediately. This is a 2000s task, and it's now the 2020s. What you see new in stores is all Chinese-made crap, or HD cards (awful for SD work, aka VHS/etc).
The easy suggestion is always ATI AIW cards, AGP safe, PCIe gets screwy, avoid PCI/USB unless you know what you're getting (mostly bad models, some good). Certain Osprey cards may be the same.
If you insist on USB cards, and don't want to play the good/bad lottery, and refuse to buy gear from me, then you can subsist on the not-great/not-awful Dazzle cards. Again, not great, but not awful. However, better than Chinese junk from
Amazon/
eBay (or even Best Buy, aka Roxio/etc rebadges), better than that Youtube idiot "little weird" HDMI converter. But Dazzle just not quality, still some messing with values. But better than many alternatives. (For PAL, the GV-USB is a recent popular option, for an old USB card, so proceed carefully, test, verify.)
Essentially, you're late to the party, wandering around trying to see if anybody left pretzels in their bowl, maybe find a warm beer in the pantry. Everybody is now in the hot tub, maybe passed out on a couch. You're just late. You don't go to a New Year's party at 5am on Jan 1, and expect everything to still be there.
Same goes for TBCs, VCRs, SDI converters, etc.
These days, condition matters as well, not just chips, drivers, etc. Both tech and non-tech aspects.