Capping from TV/VHS without any luck (s-video)

[ekenet]

I'm using an ATI Radeon 9800 to capture from VHS/DVD. DVD works fine but not VHS and TV. I have gone through every setting there is (VirtualDub) but it still doesn't seem to work. I can barely see the picture, jumping up and down and sometimes freezes, and it's black and white. Am currently using S-video but have tried composite without any luck. When I play the recorded file using VLC all I get is green. My friend has the same computer/graphics card and it works fine for him to cap from any source.

[ekenet]

Sorry for my lazyness... I just read around a little bit more and it seems that my capturing-card has macrovision or some kind of protection. What's the capturing card good for if I can't be able to record VHS/TV. That's the whole point, isn't it?

[Supreme2k]

The whole point of macoision is to keep you from copying. You can purchase a TBC or a "descrambler"at many electronics stores for that purpose. You can get them for as cheap as US$20 (legally).

[ekenet]

But the thing is that I can't even copy my own homemade-movies. Anyway, will try and use those ATI MV removers instead. I'm not going to pay any money to be able to use my capturing card to what it's made for.

[Heywould3]

I can barely see the picture, jumping up and down and sometimes freezes, and it's black and white.

That sounds alot like a pal/ntsc issue. macrovison acts differently than that.

I also have an ATI cap card. and i can input DTV VHS TV cable etc into the inputs and the mmc tv tuner will allow me to switch between input source and watch/record

Now some/most VHS/DVD sources have macrovision but cable doesnt and my DTV doesnt do that either. so your having another issue.. check your setings, if your in a pal region make sure your card is pal enabled. if not then try different cables and connection options.. IE coax/s-vid/compos.

GL hope this helps

[ekenet]

I installed Ulead VideoStudio that came along with the graphics card and changed the settings in there. Then I went back to my favourite VirtualDub and to my surprise the picture now had no flaws at all, except for it being black and white :/ Anybody might guess what it is? The source is PAL and my settings are set to PAL so there's no format matter i think.