vhs to dvd by easycap

[shom44]

i have captured my vhs vidoes by easy cap, and the resoultion is awful.
can i improve the resultion in some way? i use corel visual studio

or i must to buy tv card for good quality?

[DB83]

You can start by uploading a mediainfo (text mode) report of a capture. And you will never get HD quality out of a SD mpeg2 capture devioce.

But you are dealing with VHS and more work is done post-capture than in the capture process.

[shom44]

easycap is SD mpeg2?
and TV card also?

and what work is needed after the capturing?

[pippas]

As DB83 says, you're dealing with VHS as your source, so the resolution is not that good to start with....
I used an EZcap 116 to capture the clip attached to THIS POST and found the resolution acceptable from the device - certainly on a par with my Canopus DV ADVC50 converter.
I think it's typical of the resolution you can expect to get from a VHS source......

[DB83]

easycap is SD mpeg2?
and TV card also?

and what work is needed after the capturing?

Your easycap - you have not said if you are using an official ezcap or one of these cheap fakes which itself could affect quality - will capture at a maximum of 720*576 pixels (PAL) or 720*540 pixels (NTSC). This is what we talk of as SD definition (In fact this is actually higher than what VHS is)

Capture bitrate is also important which is why I asked for a mediainfo report.

Any analogue to digital capture device or SD tv card will capture at this definition and not higher. You can, potentially, get better definition from a ADVC device which converts the VHS to a DV avi as my friend above mentions. I also use one of these but a ADVC 300.

I can not speak of HD capture devices since I do not use one. There are many threads on here about these. And they do cost a lot more than that easycap.

Impossible to advise what post-production work is required since every capture is different. This is done using avisynth which has a very steep learning curve