Hi All, I'm on my 3rd reboot of my VHS capture project since I first started reading posts on this Forum in 2018. Hopefully this time I'll keep it going. Fortunately all the pieces of my workflow (ATI 600 USB, AG-1980, HR-S9800, TBC-3000, Lenovo T500 XP laptop) appear to be working good! I've even added a Cyberpower UPS to protect everything (LS rec) and replaced the TBC3000 power supply (which was causing herringbone).
Even though I've worked with everything from DOS and OS2 to today I just can't stand working with XP. As luck would have it I have the WinTV 2250 card (PCI-e) and a friends 2012 Windows 7 PC (HP Pavilion p7-1232 running W10) which has a PCI-e slot. So I wanted to see just for fun how it would work with VDUB. To my amazement it seems to work perfectly and the ATI 600 USB, as warned, does not.
I'm not looking to start a war on this topic but I wanted to post here that maybe, just maybe this combination could be a good solution for folks who don't want to deal with XP or when the 600's are all gone.
My simple test is shown in the attached screen shots and I may find issues eventually.
1. VHS NTSC Broadcast capture with VDUB - 0 frames dropped, 0 frames inserted with the 2250. The ATI 600 was terrible with jumping video and lots of inserts (although rock solid on XP).
2. Histogram on (Preview required) shows levels below 16 - which I assume means it doesn't cut off at 16 like the ATI 600. I assume that means blacker blacks should be possible with the 2250? Also, in the screen shots I let the levels go into the red just to show it better. I know to stay within 16-235 and crop/matte.
I'm open to suggestions of what else I should be looking for, as far as what might not work in W10, as I don't pretend to be an expert in any way at this. I did get
HuffYUV working as you can see from the capture filesize thanks to a LS post, thank you for that!