which prog to capture ?

[hydra3333]

I think I just got caught out by purchasing a cheapie USB based analogue capture device, and now need to know which lightweight program to use to capture from it !

I used to use the latest VirtualDub to capture VHS using an old WInfast TV2000Expert PCI based card, but thought I'd go more portable by acquiring a USB based thingy... what could go wrong, I thought ?

I purchased a GadgetGeek VHS DVD Maker today from Dick Smith for AU$59, http://gadgetgeek.biz/vhs_dvdmaker.html Once the drivers were installed, it showed up in VirtualDub as "USB 2863 Device" (video) and "WDM 2863 Audio" (audio).

But for the life of me I can't get it to capture in VirtualDub - the capture screen flashes a couple of times and then gives the error "Unable to start video capture".

It came with software "Arcsoft ShowBiz DVD2" and "Media Converter" but I want to install all that stuff, and want to stick with VirtualDub / Huffy / AVIsynth / HCenc. (ArcSoft want's to capture and on-the-fly compress to mpeg2 whereas I want to denoise, crop, adjust colour/lighting, etc).

Can anyone please suggest how to capture from it to a huffy avi ? eg
i) how to capture from it with VirtualDub
or
ii) how to capture from it with another lightweight capture program (which does not require an "install")

Thanks.

I wish I'd shelled out the extra $20 for the other model on display; then again it may have had the same issue.

[hydra3333]

I think I found the generic driver download page for it, however I'm not sure which one, either stuff ending with "EMPAudio" or stuff ending with "UAC".
http://home.eeti.com.tw/web20/eg/download.html

Now sure installing just a new generic driver would help, either.

EDIT: stuff ending with "EMPAudio" ... the top one labelled "WQHL" seems to install both video and audio and detects the device. Unfortunately it still has same problem with VirtualDub.