Frozen Video With VHS Capture Using ATI Card

[cchall]

I'd greatly appreciate any advice on the following problem. I'm new to capturing from VHS. Installed an ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500DV capture card. Capturing seems to go fine, but the resulting video playback is just a frozen, jiggly picture of the first frame, with normal audio. I've tried four different software packages and all net the same result (VS6, MyDVD, ATI's TV applet and even Microsoft MovieMaker). I'm going for the MPEG2 format so that I can burn to DVD.

I'm using a Dell 1.7 Ghz machine with 512 MB RAM, HD controller set for DMA, WinXP Pro. Tried two different VCR's; current one is a Sony.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

CC Hall

[lordsmurf]

Read this:
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=164687

It may help.

[mastersmurfie]

this actually sounds like a macrovision protection problem...I cannot find the link in the TOOLS section any longer for disabling macrovision with ATI, but you might try here:

http://www.doom9.org/

and searching for "disable macrovision"

[Will Hay]

I don't think it's a macrovision problem, what's your source?
Try reducing the format of the capture to a smaller size, for instance if you're using 720 x 576 try, just to eliminate this risk, say 480 x 320 or something.
Will