VCR Capturing Problem....Need Help

[Maximus777]

Hello everybody, I need some help. I have done TV capturing and DVD ripping and I recently tried to capture from my VCR. I connected the VCR from its output to my TV card input and I can see the movie on my screen fine. BTW, I am using AVI IO along with Virtual Dub to achieve my capturing. I loaded everything up ok and used PIC Video MJPEG as my compression at 18 quality. The video records fine and then when I open the movie in Windows Media Player it plays fine for about 20 seconds and then the video (only) starts repeating. It doesnt skip or continue, it just repeatedly goes back and forth for the same second over and over. I have tried everything and am in desperate need of help. Please reply.

Sorry this was so long. Thanks

Maximus

[Maximus777]

One other thing that I forgot to mention...I am using the AIW 128 to do my capturing. Sorry about that.

Maximus

[srooibok]

Got the same problem with identical hardware and using the same software! Is it macrovision and if so is there a work around as I've been told there is using virtualdub, but don't know how to do it.

Any help appreciated!

'S'

[zoro]

I've got Radeon VIVO. I've got similar problem. I checked couple of things and it seems for me that it depends on size of file - after certain number of megabytes it is repeating the same frame.
On ATI support page they mention a fix for DirectX 8, which solves some problems with DirectX 8 and video capture - I don't remember link, so you have to find it by yourself (go through ATI support).
It haven't help, but I downloaded Beta! drivers from ATI and installed it.
Now everything is OK.
When I was installing Beta drivers there was a message box saying that it REQUIRES DirectX 8 fix I mentioned above.
So, what I suggest:
If you have DirectX 8 - install Microsoft fix and then try Beta drivers for AIW 128.

[RFontenot]

This behavior is intentional. It occurs whenever an ATI capture card detects what it thinks is a Macrovision copy protection signal. See the following ATI Support page for more info:

http://support.ati.com/infobase/3397.html

<Legal Disclaimer ON>

If you are trying to capture copy protected video with the intent of distributing the video to friends, family, and/or the Internet, then you are in violation of U.S. copyright laws, and if caught, you will be sent to prison to be gang raped for many, many years.

Even if you live in a foreign country where this sort of thing is perfectly legal, then don't ever plan on coming to America. If you do, our beloved FBI (Federal Bureau of Incompetents) will arrest you the moment you step off the plane, and sent you to prison to be gang raped for many, many years.

If you are an American citizen, and you are trying to capture a copy protected video for your own private use, then you are exercising your right to "fair use" of copyrighted material.

<Legal Disclaimer OFF>

There is a program on Doom9's website which disables one type of Macrovision detection on ATI cards. Look in the news archive for May 30.

http://go.to/doom9

The drawback to this program is that there a several different Macrovision signals, and this patch disables the detection of only one type.

This patch will allow you to capture copy protected video from a VCR to via the yellow video-in connector. However, you may see some color banding at the top of your capture, and some skewing at the bottom. (Macrovision does not affect audio signals.)

You will NOT be able to capture via the S-Video in, as that uses a different Macrovision signal.

You will NOT be able to capture output from a DVD player, as they use still another type of Macrovision signal.

An alternative to Doom9's patch is a video clarifier. Sima sells two kinds that can be bought at Best Buy and/or Circuit City. These "clean up" an incoming video signal, and depending on what version you buy, can eliminate some or all Macrovision signals.

http://www.netbored.com/SCC.htm
http://www.videoguys.com/sima.htm

RF

[next]

Correct once again RF. That pretty much sums it up.

[Causality]

RFontenot, you, my friend, are living in the past. Not the distant past, just prior to May, 1999. That date ushered in the age of the deranged DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act). The DMCA effectively leaves the decades old "fair use" standard in the hands of the geniuses who came up with Macrovision, namely the motion picture and music publishers. Yes, current copyright law gives you the right to process electronic media you own in anyway you want as long as it is for your own use. You can make archival copies, change media format (cassette to CD-ROM for example), or just make 1008 copies of your copy of Wham's Greatest Hits CD for safekeeping. As long as you keep those copies to yourself you are free to do whatever you want. Along comes billions of $$$$$ in lobby slush money from Hollywood and then.... came the DMCA. Now it is a new age. You still have the "Fair Use" right. However, if you circumvent any attempt (however lame) by the publishers to prevent copying (ie. filter out Macrovision) you have committed a federal offense. Punishable by up to 5 years in a federal prison w/o probation and a $500,000 fine. That applies even if you are only making anarchival back-up of media you purchased and are the legal owner of and by copyright law have the legal right to do so. (Can you say Catch-22.) The good news is most federal lock-ups are isolation facilities so the gang raping will be kept to a minimum since you'll be in your cell 23 hours a day.

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