Hello,
a month ago, I was able to successfully capture from my VCR (Sanyo VHR-7100EE) using Somagic SMI Grabber (aka EasyCAP DC60+ chinese clone) with SMI-2021CBE chip on Windows XP 32-bit, using VirtualDub and HuffYUV codec. Quality was pretty decent, no stutter etc. After removing certain frequency peaks from the picture and using QTMGC deinterlacing script it all looks really great.
Today I've found some other family tapes in the attic (in small VHS-C casettes). These play fine on Samsung Smart TV using composite out of Panasonic RX11 VHS-C camcorder. They also play quite fine in mentioned VCR (with VHS-C adapter). In both cases video sometimes "jumps" in Y axis or some noise is visible at the bottom of the screen. It might be worth noticing that in camcorder's display, the text with playback info is a bit messy (that messiness stops when video stops jumping).
However, I tried to capture them the same way as before. Video from camcorder is of *great* quality -- that is until I press play. Then, there's a second of two/three still frames and after that... a black screen, two stills again, and black screen, and so on. When it comes to capturing from VCR (using the adapter), SMI Grabber displays nothing.
The tapes I captured a month ago won't capture either. (While, obviously, they play fine on the TV).
I also have a 10-year-old card, Excalibur Radeon 9200 ViVo (ATI Rage Theater Video Capture) which captures video of great quality from the camcorder... again: until I press play and treat it as VHS-C player. System is Windows XP 32-bit. On the other hand it wont capture anything from that standalone VCR (only noise).
USB SMI Grabber behaves in the same way on my notebook with Windows 7 64-bit (64-bit drivers downloaded from here)...
Whats wrong?... Could it be because I installed 64-bit driver and it uploaded invalid firmware to the capture card, rendering it unusable? But firmware should be uploaded during every plug-in of the card, though... I dont know.
Confused,
m.
a month ago, I was able to successfully capture from my VCR (Sanyo VHR-7100EE) using Somagic SMI Grabber (aka EasyCAP DC60+ chinese clone) with SMI-2021CBE chip on Windows XP 32-bit, using VirtualDub and HuffYUV codec. Quality was pretty decent, no stutter etc. After removing certain frequency peaks from the picture and using QTMGC deinterlacing script it all looks really great.
Today I've found some other family tapes in the attic (in small VHS-C casettes). These play fine on Samsung Smart TV using composite out of Panasonic RX11 VHS-C camcorder. They also play quite fine in mentioned VCR (with VHS-C adapter). In both cases video sometimes "jumps" in Y axis or some noise is visible at the bottom of the screen. It might be worth noticing that in camcorder's display, the text with playback info is a bit messy (that messiness stops when video stops jumping).
However, I tried to capture them the same way as before. Video from camcorder is of *great* quality -- that is until I press play. Then, there's a second of two/three still frames and after that... a black screen, two stills again, and black screen, and so on. When it comes to capturing from VCR (using the adapter), SMI Grabber displays nothing.
The tapes I captured a month ago won't capture either. (While, obviously, they play fine on the TV).
I also have a 10-year-old card, Excalibur Radeon 9200 ViVo (ATI Rage Theater Video Capture) which captures video of great quality from the camcorder... again: until I press play and treat it as VHS-C player. System is Windows XP 32-bit. On the other hand it wont capture anything from that standalone VCR (only noise).
USB SMI Grabber behaves in the same way on my notebook with Windows 7 64-bit (64-bit drivers downloaded from here)...
Whats wrong?... Could it be because I installed 64-bit driver and it uploaded invalid firmware to the capture card, rendering it unusable? But firmware should be uploaded during every plug-in of the card, though... I dont know.
Confused,
m.