I happenend to find my Sony TRV 460E camcoder and about 60-70 Hi8 tapes during this Covid-19 pandepic. The camera comes on power, battery charges well. I am looking to digitise all those Hi8 tapes.
Playback of Hi8 tapes on the camera view panel and on TV has an alternate blank stripe. I did try cleaning the head with the cleaning cassette. The blank stipe still persists.
I have attached the sample video. Any ideas on probable cause and its remedy?
regards,
sathwik
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Capture a sample, it's hard to tel from a cellphone camera. Are you sure it's Hi8 and not Digital8?
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Hi @dellsam34,
Thanks for your response. Ah! its Digital8.
I did try to capture from the camera using the iLink interface onto my desktop which has a 6 pin firewire port.
Motherboard: Intel DZ68DB
OS: Kubuntu linux 18.04,
Kernel version: 4.15.0-100-generic
Capture software: kino (ver 1.3.4-2.4)
dvgrab (ver 3.5+git20160707.1.e46042e-1)
The camera was detected by the OS, but capture on both the softwares failed. Kino shows the preview of whats playing on the camera but the moment I click the capture button, it displays the message "waiting for camera" with a decrmenting countdown for 10 seconds and displays capture failure. I haven't been able to get hold of the reason for capture failure on kino.
Even capture using dvgrab fails (gvgrab -noavc -f raw sample.dv)
dvgrab gave the reason as bad frames for failure of capture. Hence I had to use my phone to show what is coming out on the view panel of the camera.
I am not sure whether is it failing for bad frames or is there a hardware issue with the firewire cable, or the ilink port on the camera or my desktop.
What do you think I should be trying now?
regards,
sathwik -
Try them all off course:
Change the cable, clean the connectors on both the computer and camcorder without damaging them, clean the camcorder video drum (just look up videos for cleaning) and use ScenalyzerLive app. -
OK, I got the connectors and the head cleaned up. Camcoder is playing well now.
I did a sample capture using Lives and Kino on Ubuntu 18.04. One Hour recording occupies ~13Gb of space on storage.
Here is the output from MediaInfo:
General
Complete name : /media/additional_partition/contents/Downloads/sony-tape-captures/kino-capture/dvgrab-2006.08.08_19-26-24.dv
Format : DV
Commercial name : DVCAM
File size : 28.0 MiB
Duration : 8 s 160 ms
Overall bit rate mode : Constant
Overall bit rate : 28.8 Mb/s
Recorded date : 2006-08-08 19:26:24.000
Video
Format : DV
Commercial name : DVCAM
Duration : 8 s 160 ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 24.4 Mb/s
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
Standard : PAL
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Bottom Field First
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 2.357
Time code of first frame : 00:00:22:07
Time code source : Subcode time code
Stream size : 23.8 MiB (85%)
Encoding settings : ae mode=full automatic / wb mode=automatic / white balance= / fcm=manual focus
Audio #1
ID : 0
Format : PCM
Format settings : Big / Signed
Duration : 8 s 160 ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 768 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 32.0 kHz
Bit depth : 12 bits
Stream size : 765 KiB (3%)
Audio #2
ID : 1
Format : PCM
Format settings : Big / Signed
Duration : 8 s 160 ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 768 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 32.0 kHz
Bit depth : 12 bits
Stream size : 765 KiB (3%) -
Capture was via direct iLink/Firewire port on the camcoder to my computer.
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I had a very similar problem with my camcorder. Several stripes appeared on TV and on the little display on my camera when i played my casettes. So I just bought a new camcorder on ebay for 40 bucks. I just tried the mentioned solutions above and it actually worked, thanks
I guess i have two camcorders now
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