S video help

[Elvis1118]

Hey guys this is my first post and I'm hoping someone can help me out here.

I transferred a bunch of old home movies to my laptop a while back but I used rather cheap equipment and the quality was less than stellar. Anyway, I decided to get better stuff and start the process over again so long story short and this happens no matter what program I used I could transfer via composite cables no problem but when I try to do it via s video as soon as i plug it in the screen goes black and I cant do anything but when I plug the other cables back in it works fine again.

Anyone have any ideas? Bad s cable perhaps? Like I said I've tried different programs and I get the same result each time. Thanks for the help in advance!

[DB83]

I'll assume you do have a s-VHS vcr since combo VHS/DVD only output s-video to the DVD side not to the VHS side.


And you have altered the video source in the capture software to s-video.


Now check the pins on the cable. You might have bent one.

[dellsam34]

Computer? Capture hardware? Programs used? Playback hardware? what tapes ????????????? Basicaly what you are asking is this: My car won't work can anyone help me please?

[Elvis1118]

I'll assume you do have a s-VHS vcr since combo VHS/DVD only output s-video to the DVD side not to the VHS side.


And you have altered the video source in the capture software to s-video.


Now check the pins on the cable. You might have bent one.

None of them looked bent but when I moved a few of them around i actually got picture but it keeps cutting out..I think your on to something here I will mess with it some more, thanks for your input it helped a lot!

[aedipuss]

might be easier to buy a new higher quality cable...