Horizontal rainbow artifacts coming from SVHS player S-Video, not composite

[bigal100]

Hi everyone,

I'm going mad trying to archive some old mini VHS tapes. I purchased a JVC HR-S2902U from ebay. I am running it through a Roxio VHS to DVD USB converter. The composite videos look fine, aside from being a tad blurry. The S-Video output, which I read is supposed to be higher quality, might be a bit sharper but has crazy horizontal rainbow artifacts along the top of the video. Here is a sample:

https://youtu.be/nmDa5-WNNGo

I don't believe the Roxio capture device I have is busted because I have another 8mm camcorder with s-video output and when I plug it in through the Roxio it has no artifacts. Which leaves me to believe the culprit is the S-Video output on the JVC HR-S2902U might be busted. I was wondering if I can correct these artifacts using a Panasonic DMR-ES10 passthrough, or if I should get another VHS player, or better capture card that might be able to correct these artifacts? Going mad over here.

Thanks!

[LMotlow]

Those are not rainbow effects. It's called "flagging".
Is your capture gear and workflow really that bad or did PoohTube's reprocessing just make it look worse?

[zoobie]

Offhand, that looks like the head isn't tracking well on your VHS player. I've noticed a very small amount of tearing on the bottom of my caps but I just put a black line over it. This looks more serious.

[dellsam34]

He did mention he didn't have a problem using composite so it can't be the mechanism, Although I would like to see a sample over composite for the same tape and same scene.

[dellsam34]

I see your thread over at digitalfaq and you said you connected composite to TV played fine and S-Video to capture card that has flagging, That's not how you do comparison man, apples and oranges are not alike, Miss information render the thread useless. I'm glad you mentioned there that you are getting flagging out of composite too so I though it's important to put that information here as well to clear up the confusion.

[bigal100]

Yeah apologies for not updating this thread. Saw artifacts with both when plugged in through capture unit. As I noted in the other thread I'm going to try this workflow:

HR-S2902U -> ES10 -> Diamond VC500 -> Virtualdub

Someone also mentioned "changing the Video Stabilizer setting in the menu"... hmmm, sounds like something I need a remote for.