Trouble capturing VHS tapes PAL SVideo

[momo2705]

Hello, I'm moving in a few months and have this huge VHS collection which I will probaly have to leave behind, so I was thinking of capturing all the media so that I don't lose it all.

I've been researching and have a VHS player (SLV-SE800E) and a DVD player I'm using as a TBC (RDR-HX710) (Do I have to do anything else to the DVD player to have it act as a TBC or is passing the signal through it enough?). Which I have connected via SCART cables and am able to get a good image through another SCART from the DVD player to my TV.

After watching a couple of reviews, I settled for the Startech.com dongle to which I connected the red and white cables to my VHS player's audio output and the SVideo to the DVD's SVideo output.

My machines are all PAL, I'm in Spain.

Now the trouble is that even though I do get video, it has these glaring scanlines, which also seem to be offset vertically at the middle. I've tried changing settings in virtualdub, VLC player and OBS but I always get these. It's also not a tape issue, I tried several.

I installed the two drivers that came with the Startech.com.

By the way, I'm using OBS currently because virtualdub crashes extremely often, rebooting my PC.

I would be incredibly grateful if anyone could shed some light on why this might be happening.

Thank you so much.

[lordsmurf]

OBS is the problem here, ruining the captures.

VirtualDub crashing is almost always settings errors.

[momo2705]

First of all, thank you for replying, and so quickly, too.

I have the same problem too when trying to view the image from VLC player and for the few seconds I managed to get an image out of virtualdub, even so could it be a configuration issue?

If so, how could I configure virtualdub to get rid of the scanlines?

Thank you so much!

[momo2705]

Hi, I've been trying to get virtualdub to work, but even just changing the FPS to 25 makes the computer reboot, even before capturing anything or even turning the VHS player on.

Since I have the same error in VLC and OBS I was thinking these are two different errors, one one hand the scanlines and on the other virtualdub crashing.