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Hauppauge HVR1600 - Capturing VHS Composite: HELP!

post #1 of 6
3/8/08 at 11:55am
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I just bought the HVR1600 and the A/V cable set which allows the 1600 to input a composite signal. I am having a problem where the displayed video and the captured video are both full of flashing horizontal lines. These flashing lines are very noticeable in the areas of the video which are brightly or intensely colored. Red is by far the worst. Hauppauge's tech support is of little help. Has anyone had any success recording composite video with the HVR1600? I have one week left to return the card but I am willing to keep fighting with it if anyone out there has been able to record clean VHS composite video with the HVR1600.

See snapshots of my video issue. The dark bars are actually flashing and moving around vertically in the active video.

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Ron
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post #2 of 6
3/8/08 at 12:38pm
I don't own the HVR1600. However, I do work for my college's IT department and have some experience with this. In our multimedia lab we have external canopus capture devices. We have found that when capturing VHS, the VCR must be on CH2. If it is on anything other than CH2, there is the chance of artifacting as you are experiencing.

Therefore, you may want to try different channels on your VCR. Personally, I would try CH 2/3 and LN 1/2. Every VCR and capture device is different however you could be having a similar issue as we have here.
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post #3 of 6
3/8/08 at 1:41pm
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My VCR only has selections for channel 3 or channel 4. I had been using 3 and I switched it to 4. That made no difference in the "rolling flashing bars" in the video. I also see this if I use the composite video output of the VCR instead of the RF out. I have tried 3 different VCRs and the video from all 3 is the same.

I bought the Hauppauge board because I was told they made a great product. This is really frustrating especially since they suggested that I buy the HVR1600 and their A/V Cable set for recording VHS video.

I am open to other suggestions for correcting this problem.

Thanks,
Ron
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post #4 of 6
3/8/08 at 1:44pm
Are you sure it's not the tape? Have you tried another tape? Do you get the same results? What software are you using? Did you try another capture software?

Also, when I said channel, I did not mean the channel switch on the back of the VCR. I was referring to the channel+/- buttons the front of the VCR. For example, if you were recording TV via coax, you would set the VCR's tuner to CH3...
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post #5 of 6
3/9/08 at 9:20pm
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Originally Posted by rongl View Post

I just bought the HVR1600 and the A/V cable set which allows the 1600 to input a composite signal. I am having a problem where the displayed video and the captured video are both full of flashing horizontal lines. These flashing lines are very noticeable in the areas of the video which are brightly or intensely colored. Red is by far the worst. Hauppauge's tech support is of little help. Has anyone had any success recording composite video with the HVR1600? I have one week left to return the card but I am willing to keep fighting with it if anyone out there has been able to record clean VHS composite video with the HVR1600.

See snapshots of my video issue. The dark bars are actually flashing and moving around vertically in the active video.

Thanks.
Ron


To me, it looks like the color phase information is not being propelry filtered from the lumanance info. You say you got an A/V cable set which allows the 1600 to input composite video? No "special" cable set should be required. If this "cable set" is one of those cheasy composite to s-video converter thingies, this is almost certainly the culprit. Feed the 1600 composite directly, and select composite input on the 1600. If you can find an option for comb filtering, be sure it is enabled.
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post #6 of 6
3/9/08 at 9:32pm
Have you tried another source besides a VCR, like a DVD player (or sat/cable box)?: or the VCR tuned to a station, not playing a tape? Even the splash screen of a DVD player would work, no need to put a disk in.

I capture with my HVR1600 from a BetaMax and a VGA to video transcoder with no problems.

The symptoms that you see are either from:
The source
The Cables
The Card
External Interference

Eliminating the source and cables are the easiest things to do, outside interference - the hardest to find. If substituting the source and cables doesn't help, then RMAing the card would probly be next.
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