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  1. Hello all,

    I had a brainstorm or fart one of the two. I thought hey why not hook up my dvd player to my capture card using the rca inputs. Set my capture program to composite and enabled preview and hey I was watching my dvd movie thru it . Now for my fart part the movie was in black and white , thought maybe this was just something with the enable preview portion. So I captured about 10 minutes of video w/out it on and still black and white but beautiful capture. Is the black and white because of the macrovision I thought it only made the movie jump and such.

    I have the Apex dvd and can remove the macrovision if this is it. I thought hell if I can capture like this. I have a 100 gig harddrive why not instead of always messing with ifo's and vobs, allright am I stupid or what , HELP!
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  2. making this game to hard on yourself, speed is bad...ugh
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  3. i had the same idea but the audio and video was mess up. i did come out in color. don't know how in the heck your came out black and white...
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    briankh -

    You're not stupid doing the DVD capturing and I think you are doing something wrong with your video input settings or the cable connections.

    Check your video input settings, is your video card as composite? The wrong setting would give me like you in black and white. My video card got two connections, one for S-video input and the other RCA composite input. Get it right.

    Sometimes, I do prefer to capture the DVD rather than to rip the DVD. Capturing makes sense as DVD ripping takes too long of a time to do.

    Capturing is useful for a short favorite part of a film as a video clip or to keep a copy on the computer for a short time. I have a massive HD just like you and this is great.
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    Hi

    I Tried the same thing using composite.
    I got a shocking picture and I KNOW it was set up right.

    The way around this is to connect your DVD player to the VCR and use it as a passthrough.

    DVD Player to VCR Player to Capture Card


    It works great.


    Fozzee
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