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09-17-2023, 07:26 PM
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I have been attempting some VHS captures using VirtualDub, using the same setting recommended in the guide on this website with Huffyuv compression. I am capturing with an Iodata GVUSB2. All of my Video8 captures that I have done with these same settings using my Digital8 camera look great and do not have these lines at all, however all 3 VHS tapes I have tried have this same issue. The below video is deinterlaced via QTGMC just to rule out interlacing and I wondered if it would help clear these lines up which I dont think it has.
Is this traditional VHS quality? Or is there an issue here?
I have messed with the settings on my DVS3U and none of them so far have helped. I have also done a head clean before putting the tapes in but I am a novice so would be willing to do it again if required. Just trying to get some clarity on what this is and if I am maybe looking at a player with worn heads or something. Many thanks


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09-17-2023, 07:58 PM
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That looks like standard upper/top field first interlacing, which is normal for a VHS capture.
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09-17-2023, 09:13 PM
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That looks normal, you need to de-interlace it. It doesn't look like you have de-interlaced it at all.

https://www.youtube.com/@Capturing-Memories/videos
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09-17-2023, 10:00 PM
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Agree, it hasn't been deinterlaced. Here it is, deinterlaced in VDub.

I'm sure somebody will be able to troubleshoot your QTGMC script if you post it.


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09-17-2023, 11:53 PM
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Extremely shaky camera shots as is this one are also difficult candidates for data compression, and for deinterlacing. Interlaced files were intended to be viewed interlaced.
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09-18-2023, 04:08 AM
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Hi guys, I have attached a basic Avisynth script below, trying to learn Avisynth and use it when I can hence me using it here too. This is the script used to generate the output file seen here. I did just do a test using Virtualdub on a small sample and indeed that looks better it seems, how come QTGMC isnt fixing the lines? Am i doing something wrong here?


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09-18-2023, 05:22 AM
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Turns out I have been very stupid indeed and when I decided to export the file with FFMPEG, I exported the original AVI and not the AVS script, very silly of me. I do however have another random issue with this project, I have discovered that when I export videos x264 mp4 videos with the original 4:2:2 colour space, these videos do not play on Apple devices and when plugged into my SmartTV via memory stick, only way I have managed to solve this is putting ConvertToYV12() in the Avisynth script which i think drops it down to 4:2:0? Is there a better way of fixing this? Ideally I would like to avoid losing colour data
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09-18-2023, 09:42 AM
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Not all devices are compatible with h.264 @ 4:2:2 unfortunately, there is nothing you can do about it.

https://www.youtube.com/@Capturing-Memories/videos
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