Capture Contrast and Brightness to HIGH!!!

[SaturnBlader]

The problem I am having is a washing out of the colors on my VHS captures. The caputre's I do are perfect 1:1 ratio, But the problem is that the video is washed out with white colors so it looks to bright. I have tried to adjust the contrast and brightness of the capture programs but to no sucess. I turned around and hooked up my DVD player through the RCA Video-In and also Tried the S-Video in. The Picture is not washed out at all. It looked perfect! I tried another VCR and same thing with the first one, washed out. Is it because a VCR is such low Resolution that it causes this? Should I get a High Resolution VCR that has S-Video out? Or Is there something Else that should fix it? My DVD player worked great on it, but 2 VCR's that only have RCA look washed out.

I have a:
1.4GHz Athlon
Asus V8200 Deluxe
2x60GB HDD
El-Chep-o Toshiba VCR

I use:
InterVideo WinCoder
ASUS Digital VCR

[SaturnBlader]

Also I have used almost every video card and video capture drivers I could get my hands on, and same thing:

DVD - Great
VCR - Bad

I am also using Windows XP Pro

[Zarb]

I have the same problem, brightness to high using Windows XP.
I tried with VitualDub, ASUS Digital VCR,iuvcr, WDM 1.04,WDM 1.05, WDM 1.06 and now with WDM1.08.
I am using a NVIDIA Geforce3 Asus V8200 Deluxe and NTSC VCR.
Any help would be great.

[blindpet]

i have this whiteness problem too after i upgraded to win xp. is it the drivers, tv tuner or win xp??

Avermedia TV98, Voodoo 3 3k.

i think alot of people want this problem resolved! i've looked for patches..no luck

[lusid]

Have you tried calibrating it to your source footage with a histogram? There is one built into Virtualdub.

I found that I couldn't adjust the settings in virtualdub directly, but setting them in AMCap saved them for the VFW apps as well. I think it's a WDM driver thing.

Also, on my WinTV board I have to set my input to either Svideo or Composite, depending on the line I'm actually using to feed in the signal. If I pick the wrong one the colors are messed up similar to what you are describing.