Annoying white frame during capture

[cafa]

Annoying white frame during capture.

Im using eVGA's NVIDIA Personal Cinema FX 5600

When capturing video from TV or a VHS (my home movies), I get a white frame that covers 90% of the screen for about 3-5 seconds. eVGA, says its because television broadcasts are macrovision protected. NOW, the same thing appears on my home movies. The “effect” happens about 30-45 minutes into the recording. It never happens at the same place twice. Since it now happens with home movies, it can’t be the macrovision. I’ve tried all of the NVIDIA drivers from old to new with no luck.

I’m frustrated with the problem since just a few months ago, after the passing of my mother, I bought an ATI 128 All-in Wonder 128 PRO card to transfer all of her VHS home videos to DVD. It had problems with detecting macrovision from the VCR with no workaround ON HOME MOVIES...(tried all of the patches with no luck). It had excellent results recording from TV, but I wanted to transfer old videos. So, I basically lost $400 on that card since a refund was impossible. I’ve now spent another $300 on the Personal Cinema FX 5600 and I’m having problems with that too. What is the “friggin” deal here? They all advertise “you can transfer all of your old VHS movies to digital”… and $700 later, I’m back to square one. Can anyone help?

I’m using a P4 2.2
1024 MB
Personal Cinema FX 5600
Windows XP


Thanks

[thecoalman]

It's the MV again, at least in my opinion. Having been down the same road with a ATI myself and now the Nvidia makes ytou want to strangle someone doesn't it?

Fortunatley there is two solutions for the Nvidia, both worked for me. You can revert to capture driver version 1.08, not the display driver. This driver is not available on nvidia's site hmmmmmmmm I wonder why? But it is available, just hunt around you'll find it.

I was also able to get rid of the white screen with the newest driver by running the video through a Sima Go-DVD first, this model is about $100, you can probably get the same results from a cheaper one. If you have a Best Buy or other store with a liberal return policy near your place of residence just start with the cheapest one and work your way up. I wasn't able to test this on the ATI but wish I could have.

I'd suggest getting in touch with evga and ask them why the older driver works better as you will find out...

I personally think it's a shame that people including myself have to jump through hoops to transfer there home movies considering anyone pirating movies can easily defeat the MV with the right hardware anyway.