Video/Audio sync problems with Hauppauge USB-Live2 & Vdub

[Traderbam]

I've been experimenting again and am keen to see what settings others use specifically with the Hauppauge USB-Live in VirtualDub under the "Timings" section. I don't have a frame TBC (still saving for it) but in the meantime what is the best settings to avoid continual audio sync drift? I don't mind a consistent offset which can be adjusted in post, but for a variable drift it is very difficult to fix afterwards.

For reference I am seeing about 90 inserted frames in the minute of one of my captures - there are 35ish as soon as the preview window loads. Is something dodgy with my VCR (VR1000 with line TBC) perhaps? Playbook on my TV screen looks faultless.

I've subsequently tested this on another PC, and I get identical behaviour with 33/34 frames inserted from the beginning (drop/insert options are enabled, don't sync a/v, auto-disable resync checked). This rules out VCR as the problem and PC as the problem. The issue isn't isolated to a single tape either. Could this be a faulty USB-Live2?

Often I will get inserted frames where scenes are cut, but even with the "adjust audio to fit video" option I still get out of sync audio.

Any suggestions welcome.

[Alyosha2001]

Merry Christmas! Two years have passed, found a good deal on an Elgato, replaced the USB Live2+VirtualDub with Elgato and Amarec; the exact same VCR, no TBC, only autotracking, captured some old 3 hours tapes, some of them so deteriorated that I had to open the VCR and manually clean it's heads, but no more out of sync. So, this was the working formula, not some 200-400$ setups! Just use the 50$ elgato with AmarecTV and then reencode with VirtualDub2. Hope this helps!

[lollo]

So, this was the working formula, not some 200-400$ setups! Just use the 50$ elgato with AmarecTV and then reencode with VirtualDub2. Hope this helps!

You could have obtained same or better result with USB-Live 2 and AmarecTV, no need to switch to Elgato. But you need a Y/C, time base corrected signal in any case.

[Alyosha2001]

So, this was the working formula, not some 200-400$ setups! Just use the 50$ elgato with AmarecTV and then reencode with VirtualDub2. Hope this helps!

You could have obtained same or better result with USB-Live 2 and AmarecTV, no need to switch to Elgato. But you need a Y/C, time base corrected signal in any case.

Probably, when I had it it had some issues with AmarecTV, but I think is was not configured well (it gave some bluescreens)

[lollo]

Sure. What I meant is that moving from a USB-Live 2 to an Elgato card does not solve any timing/aysnch issue. In this case, what makes a difference is the quality of the incoming signal and the capture software.