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11-19-2014, 05:08 PM
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I have done a few captures about a year ago. No problems. Everything worked fine. I wanted to try a few more and opened up a brand new VHS tape to test out my equipment again and about 20 seconds while not even capturing just viewing the video through the capture device the picture goes to all lines across. If I stop the video or unplug the video cable everything works fine again. Same result with S-Video as well as composite so not thinking its the cable. I ran the VHS directly to my monitor and the issue with the lines does not happen at all. Only thing left is my capture device. Any chance there could be a driver issue to blame? I am using a new ATI 600 USB that worked flawlessly about a year ago last.

I testing this using ATI software as well as VirtualDub which is what i use for capture. The issue is not even when I am capturing although it is the same result. It happens even just playing through the capture device.

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11-19-2014, 05:58 PM
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Id that a retail tape? Copy protected?
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11-19-2014, 07:18 PM
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It is an old retail tape. I did not even think they had copy protection..
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11-19-2014, 09:14 PM
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They do, many of them. I don't have a percentage figure for you but I had maybe 1 of 3 old retail tapes that had some form of Macrovision. You need a frame-level tbc to record or capture it, or an older Panasonic or Toshiba DVD recorder circa 2000-2005 to use as a pass-thru tbc. From the images, your player has visible oversharpening halos and DCT ringing (dark edge ghosts on bright edges) as well as intra-frame scanline sync errors. A pass-thru device would help with the line sync errors and Macrovision both, but as a pass-thru device only, not as recorders. Don't waste your money on cheap video "enhancers" to cure the problem -- they're a "cure" that's worse than the disease.
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11-20-2014, 07:39 AM
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Thanks for the tips. Appreciate the good advice. Seems there was protection on it that I was not aware of.
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11-23-2014, 01:51 PM
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Your image is exactly what the ATI 600's driver does to videos that are Macrovision-protected.
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