Viability of cheap VHS capture

[jerryshadoe]

Interesting. Never heard of this software before. Thanx for the info, I will pass it on

[Feallan]

This looks like the right one:

http://m.aliexpress.com/item/32294309001...sitedetail

Alright, I bought it.

[mj0012]

If you need any help with it, let me know. I was honestly impressed, it can even handle a real Secam signal, I recorded a couple of French vhs tapes using it with no problem.

[Feallan]

Tell him to try AmarecTV, I had it working in Windows 7 (and now 10) with the UTV007 without any problems, even while most other programs would crash.

http://www.amarectv.com/english/amarectv_e.htm

Can this program record video going through the capping device and audio from sound card simultaneously?

[jerryshadoe]

My father asked the same question, LOL

Would appreciate an answer to this as google was not my friend on this one.

[mj0012]

Yes, absolutely you can do that. Just click the Config button (upper left as shown in the picture), then go to the Graph 1 (Device) tab. Then you can click on the Recording tab to set the video and audio codecs you want to use.

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[mj0012]

Also it turns out there's a newer version of the software than what's on the English page, you can get it here:

http://www.amarectv.com/download/amarectv310.zip

[Feallan]

Thanks.

[jerryshadoe]

On behalf of my father, "Thank you very much, sir."

[Feallan]

Alright, the capture card arrived some time ago, I've recently gotten around to playing with it.

What are the best AmarecTV settings? Deinterlace or not? If yes, which setting? Any other specific options?

So far I've only tried capturing from an old Video8 camera, I didn't manage to get my hands on a working VCR yet.