VHS to VCD

[edsmith77]

Help. I am new to video converting and have hit a wall. I have numerous old VHS tapes that I want to convert to VCD. I have tried several different capture tools (some freeware and some commercial) and all have the same problem. Thus, I am thinking it is a keyboard interface problem. I can capture (either to AVI or MP2) quite fine. However, when I try to play the capture back the video pauses (with a continuous frame repeat) after about 10 seconds even though the audio continues on just fine. I have tried capture from my VHS-C and it does just perfectly. No problems at all. The problems occur when I try to capture from my VHS player. I have been using (mainly from a flexibility persective) VirtualDub and Tempgenc with all sorts of various settings. Some I got from these forums some from just playing. Can anyone help me decipher my way through this mess.

Thanks,
Ed Smith

[snowmoon]

Do you have an ATI card?

You might be seeing macrovision protection kick in.

[edsmith77]

Do you have an ATI card?

You might be seeing macrovision protection kick in.

Yup, I am using an ATIP Rage Fury Pro 128. Does this "feature" only apply to VHS capture and not VHS-C capture?? If so, then do you know where or how to disable this feature.
On a side bar, I am considering getting the Happauge (sp) TV capture card. Any comments on this choice?

Thanks,
Ed

[snowmoon]

Not ever format can carry the macrovision signal. ATI cards often misinterpret poor signal quality with macrovision.

I moved from an ATI card to a WinTV-FM PCI card because of driver hedaches.

[edsmith77]

snowmoon,
Thanks. I think that is about the convincing that I needed. I wonder why when I even use their (ATI) MultiMedia center program it does not seem to have anyproblems recording but does have the described problem even with its own recordings.

Ed