I get an annoying "green noise" in the captures of my tapes

[louberga]

Hello everyone, this is my first post here.

Well, I'm planning to convert a huge collection of VHS tapes into a common video format, to later be saved on an external hard disk. For this purpose I have an AverTV Volar Video Capture USB and it's first party software, drivers and stuff.

My problem? Well, I don't seem fo find any codification options which show the images the way they should look.

When I choose PAL (my default option), I get a really annoying, intermitent green noise which covers either all the screen or just part of it for most of the time.

When I choose PAL_60, the quality of the image is optimal (all green noise disappears), but on the other hand, the bottom of the screen is cropped out and gets stretched in order to fill the void. Also, there's a small image freezing every 2 seconds.

Ideally, I would like to have an option which mixed the resolution and frame consistence of what I get when I choose PAL, but with the image quality I get when I choose PAL_60.

I already asked Avermedia to their mail and twitter account, but got no response.

What could I do? Perhaps I should use third party software? If it doesn't have any solution, what other non-PCI (preberably USB) device do you recommend me?

Thanks in advance.

[manono]

When I choose PAL (my default option)...

Just because it's the default doesn't make it right. Are you in a PAL country? And are the tapes all PAL? Any weird PAL stuff, like SECAM? Might the tapes be copy-protected (retail tapes of films)

What codec are you using to capture? Often the included software for these things limits you to MPEG-2 at relatively low bitrates.

Perhaps I should use third party software?

Perhaps. Virtual Dub is good and free.

[joeandmarg0]

I have used EzCAP116 to transfer all my VHS tapes to the hard drive without any failures or problems.I live in PAL country[Australia].If your tapes are in poor condition,then very little,if anything,can be done to change that.

[louberga]

Thanks everyone for your replies. Well, I wanted to clarify that it's not only the capture (the resulting video file) which has this green noise, I already see the green noise when I'm simply watching the AverTV Viewer.

By the way, I don't always see that. It mostly happens with the VHS tapes I recorded in the 90's and 00's. The ones I have recorded in a VCR from the 80's look just fine, even if sometimes I see "a bit" of that green noise in these too, although it's much more unusual.

When I choose the PAL_60 option, though, there's absolutely no trace of that green noise (but I get the other problems I already mentioned)

Yes, all my stuff is regular PAL.

I also checked the capturing feature of VirtualDub, but I receive the same signal with green noise I get with other programs.

By the way , another reason I'm worried about this is because I remember using a Pinnacle PCI capture card (around 2007) which gave me none of these problems, and I used the same VHS tapes I'm using now (unfortunately that card stopped working a couple of years later). That's why I would also consider buying another capturing device, although it should be USB now, since I don't have any extra PCI slot.

Update: I have noticed that this green noise only appears when the colours shown are "too vivid".