Tiny fizzy line at top of picture when capturing

[baseband]

Hi. Every time I capture something I get a line all the way across the top of the screen. It's very narrow, probably only a pixel or two, but it's black and white and moving, sort of like TV fizz, so it's distracting. Is there any way to prevent this when I'm capturing? If not, is there any share or freeware program i can use to easily mask it out with a solid black line? It's small enough that it would not be noticable if it wasn't moving.

The line is not present when viewing live TV through VirtualDub or my other TV program.

My system specs & capture details :

AMD Athlon XP 1800+
1024 MB DDR RAM
GEForce3 Ti200 w/ 64MB DDR
Hauppage WinTV GO FM (the cheap one with mono audio)
Philips Acoustic Edge 5.1 soundcard

Captured with VirtualDub v1.4.9 at 480x480, 29.97 fps, CD quality audio, Huffyuv YUY2 Predict Gradient.

[spiderman2k1]

i have the same thing on the Dazzle 2 but its fine you can not see it on the TV at all. TMPG might fix it but then you have less picture to use on the TV . So it

[spiderman2k1]

i have the same thing on the Dazzle 2 but its fine you can not see it on the TV at all. TMPG might fix it but then you have less picture to use on the TV . So if you fix it you would use the good part of the picture and left for the TV if you know what I mean

[NightWing]

I get those every one in a while. Mostly about 1 to 3 scan line thick. Just use the clip and center options in TMPGE to blot out those but usualy the tv limts remove them anyway.

[Nexzus]

That's normal. It's in what's called the OVERSCAN area and does NOT show up when played on a TV, only on a PC. If you're going to VCD (or other formats) for DVD player playback, then don't worry about it. If you planning on watching on a PC you might want to clip it out.

-Nexzus

[Anonymous65]

Some of the top TV lines contains data like closed captioning and other data and test signals. In Europe, these lines are filled with Text-TV data.

[Nexzus]

Good bit of info there skittelsen, thanx.

[NightWing]

I think tht is the digital code for runtime. IE the clock of how long its running. Been seeing it more and more lately. Mostly sloppy signal. Esp from local stations.

Hum I thought teletex was handle during one of the blanking lines further down the screen or did they move it? Been quite a few years since I saw the spects on it.

Hum #2. Wonder if I could decode it. It look binary.

But in effect its an egnore item.

[TheInformer]

I get those lines from time to time when I capture from TV. When capturing from VHS, however, I get several fuzzy lines at the bottom of the screen.

In VirtualDub, load the captured video file.
Under Video, load the Null Transform filter and crop out the top or bottom lines you don't want. Stick with multiples of 8 to avoid problems.
Under Video, load the resize filter. Expand frame and change the width and height to your file's original dimensions.

Frameserve to your favorite encoder.
Garnish with a smile

[baseband]

Cool, thanks for the help, everyone.

[afwasborstel]

yes, indeed the first line are used for informatio like teletekst and shit.
The balk and white bars are the VITC wich stand for vertical interfal timecode. They appear when a video is captured in underscan. You usually don't see them on a normal tv. Because they are in the area known as the Safety Area. The white and black bars are generated by the machine in wich a tape is played. When it's aired, and some vcr's capture that area.
The lines are generated usually by a Digital Betacam recorder or a SP recorder. It's a way of generating a timecode wich is used in linear editing. When you edit in an A to B setting with professional recorders, you need a timecode to make an edit(wanno know more about it mail me). They use LTC(lateral time code) wich is placed in an apart track and VITC(that what u see in the screen). Here in Holland we use VITC for screening aplications like subtitles...In general they don't use it. And you don't need it. It's just irritating. Cut it of, or let it be. If everything goes right you don't see it on your televesion. It's again in the safety area(unless you use 16:9) it will appear again.

This is the short version. If you wanna hear more...let me know