Need some help in doing VHS/Camcorder --> AVI Conversion .. !

[ahmadka]

Hi guys. Well I just got my EasyCAP USB Video Capture Adapter today, and wanted to try storing some of my childhood Camcorder moments in AVI format on my PC, but I am having a few hiccups. I'm a n00b at this :P

1) I need some good small software to capture the video, and save it in AVI format. No fancy video editing stuff is needed. Simply dumping the video in AVI format will do for me. I already know of DScaler, and STOIK Capturer. Please suggest me some other similar tools too.

2) The video I am trying to capture is Interlaced. I need to de-interlace it. I have already tried enabling the Deinterlace filter in ffdshow's encoding settings, but its not working. How do I deinterlace easily ?

3) Some someone tell me how to properly enable De-interlacing in DScaler too ?

4) Lastly, I am having this strange problem. Video Capture video preview is very smooth in Windows XP, under all programs, but in Vista, the video preview is *very* slow. You see the frame change like once in every 10-15 seconds !!! What could be the problem here ?

Thanx for the all the help people

[ahmadka]

any help people ?

[zoobie]

Hey...What up?

1) Try WinDV with your adapter and see if it works. It'll save as a DV-AVI.
2) Why do you need to deinterlace? For the web? I've noticed small frame sizes of 320x240 squish the comb lines together so de-interlacing isn't necessaary. What's your end goal?
3) Don't know...ask around for a good de-interlacer
4) I take it you're using Windows Movie Maker in Vista which spawned the first question. Try turning everything off in background (alt+ctrl+delete>processes>turn off everything you don't need when capturing)

[ahmadka]

Yes, in 320x240, the interlacing is gone, but I want to save it in 640x480, in which interlacing is present. I have tried applying the Deinterlace filters in boh virtualdub, and ffdshow, but the interlacing is still there .. what could I be doing wrong ?

The problem with the capturing now working in Vista is occuring in all Video Capturing programs, not just a few .. It seems like the problem is OS and/or driver related .. but I have already re-installed the drivers .. I don't know what else to do ..