Recording issues with JVC-HR-XVS20

[dany_6756]

Hello

Im having issues with my JVC HR-XVS20 VHS player when recording via OBS


I recently purchased this player on eBay to record family VHS tapes, it worked great for a few months but recently its started having issues when recording via OBS, I'm not sure how to exactly describe it but the video looks jittery towards the top and is also jumpy. A few months back video recording was perfectly fine, no issues at all, this issue happens with every tape I play. I've attached an MP4 file showing the issue.

I am using a StarTech SVID2USB to capture.

I've tried connecting my VHS player to a TV and it played perfectly without any issues.

I have tried connecting a different VHS player to my startech capture device and that played perfectly fine via OBS.

I took apart the JVC VHS player but couldn't find any obvious issues, I tried cleaning the VHS heads but still have the exact same issue.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Sharc]

Your capture has flaws of various causes and origins (tape condition, VCR player, capture app ....) to begin with, like
- glitches and frame sync issues
- dropped frames, dropped fields
- poor baserate deinterlacing encoded as 50 fps producing duplicates

You should revisit your capture setup
- Use AmarecTV or VirtualDub instead of OBS as your capture app
- capture lossless 4:2:2 interlaced, 720x576i (for PAL), S-video
- deinterlace and upscale etc. in post processing rather than on the fly

Search the forum, plenty of posts and recommendations/guides about decent capturing.

[themaster1]

Open the hood and clean the guide poles/rollers, audio/control head (on the right side), the pinch roller aswell with a few qtips and 90-99% alcohol iso. Remove all black gunk. Try to be thorough.
Then the heads drum (big round thing that turn fast) not with a qtip though, with a piece of printing paper soaked in 99% iso alcohol, press gently (i said gently) on the heads drum, rotate the drum counter clockwise slowly, Check the paper, continue until there is no more gunk. Unplug the vcr before doing it.
All the black gunk that accumulate overtime will create problems of either signal stability (bad reading-> snow, noise bars) or good tape movement (jumpyness etc..)

[rgr]

Im having issues with my JVC HR-XVS20 VHS player when recording via OBS

Never use OBS for this.

[dany_6756]

Open the hood and clean the guide poles/rollers, audio/control head (on the right side), the pinch roller aswell with a few qtips and 90-99% alcohol iso. Remove all black gunk. Try to be thorough.
Then the heads drum (big round thing that turn fast) not with a qtip though, with a piece of printing paper soaked in 99% iso alcohol, press gently (i said gently) on the heads drum, rotate the drum counter clockwise slowly, Check the paper, continue until there is no more gunk. Unplug the vcr before doing it.
All the black gunk that accumulate overtime will create problems of either signal stability (bad reading-> snow, noise bars) or good tape movement (jumpyness etc..)

Thanks for your suggestion, i tried cleaning everything you have mentioned however I still get the exact same issue, the player did look relativley clean from the inside before i started cleaning it so not much gunk came out of it, is there anything else I can try or do I need another player?

[Sharc]

is there anything else I can try..

Posts#2, #4? Revisit your setup.

or do I need another player?

Not necessarily, Post#1:

I've tried connecting my VHS player to a TV and it played perfectly without any issues.

Also, check your cabling for loose/shaky connections.

[dany_6756]

is there anything else I can try..

Posts#2, #4? Revisit your setup.

or do I need another player?

Not necessarily, Post#1:

I've tried connecting my VHS player to a TV and it played perfectly without any issues.

Also, check your cabling for loose/shaky connections.

I've tried virtualdub but I still get the exact same issues when i was using obs so I think the issue is with the player and not my capture setup.

I've also tried different cables and making sure they are secure but that didn't help either.