Capturing from V. Low Quality VHS Source Problems

[MiGhtYBeaTniK]

Hi all you encoding guys and gals out there. I have used the guides on here to great help with my encoding from videos. However I just bought a low-quality pal video of Galaxy High off eBay. When I try to capture it using VirtualDub under any compression, the frame drop is very high.

I have captured to good quality encodes before, but this video has visible flickers on the tv as well as on my pc. In 1 minute it was dropping 150 frames at least!

Any advice to try and solve this problem? If anyone helps me to solve it I will be willing to send them a vcd/divx encode of an episode of galaxy high cartoon!

Thanks

Duncan

[flaninacupboard]

what resolution you using? what codec? what spec is your pc?
my suggestion, if its destined for VCD, then 352X576 in vdub, us pic video mjpeg at level 19. should be fine.

[MiGhtYBeaTniK]

My p chas an athglon 1800+, with a huappenage tv card and 20 spare gig on a 7200rpm hard drive. I am using standard pal settings of 352 * 288, with pic video mjpeg by default, but i have tried also other codecs.

[dphirschler]

Errors on the video tape will cause dropped frames. You may be able to recover bad frames by frame advancing the video and capturing frame at a time. You'll have to capture the audio seperately.

Needless to say, this is very time consuming. Only use this method if you are desparate.


Darryl

[MiGhtYBeaTniK]

Where else will I find Galaxy High in the UK?

[D_Knife]

Other than the above method suggested a Time base corrector (TBC) *could* assist you.
A TBC rebuilds each frame in the video in many cases completly restoring corrupted and wavering frames allowing better chances to capture the video without problems
I can only give you price examples in AU$ but start looking at these web sites:
http://www.datavideo-tek.com
http://www/canpouscorp.com

Both of these sites list TBC as part of there product lists and both get quite good write-ups in reviews
a quick search of your local video or photographics shops should yield some results - God knows there are enough adverts in all the UK video / camera mags we get here in Australia - we get trillions of them!!