Re: USB-based VHS Video capture on Windows Vista

On 3/15/2007, rforman61@xxxxxxx posted this:
On Mar 15, 3:07 pm, Ray S <m...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
rforma...@xxxxxxx wrote:
On Mar 14, 5:13 pm, "Richard Crowley" <rcrow...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<rforma...@xxxxxxx> wrote...
Has anyone tried a USB-based hardware/software solution
that allows transfer of analog video from vhs tapes, onto a pc,
and that works with Windows Vista?
I bought on ebay (mistake in this case I guess, but it seemed
straightforward enough at the time) a box that has RCA video and audio
inputs
and connects to a USB port, the unit is called USB2.0 TVBox and
I think is made by an outfit called Super Digital Video, but anyway
when I try to run the software that came with it, it just doesn't
work,
reports "Could not initialize the capture device"; and under the
Device Manager,
the machine seems to recognize the name of the device attached to the
USB
but can't communicate successfully with it. I am guessing that the
problem
is that the software drivers haven't been tested with or updated for
Vista.
So can you try it on somebody's XP computer?
Does the vendor's website say anything about compatibility
or driver updates for Vista, etc?

Note that the overwhelming majority of video capture devices
use Firewire as USB is considered sufficient only for lower-
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Well I tried installing it and it worked like a charm on XP machine at
work.
Didn't get to try actually hooking a vcr up and attempting to capture
video so I don't know what the quality of the results would be like
but the app did now come up without errors, drivers worked fine and it
could obviously communicate with the capture device. So it is Vista
incompatibility that is causing my problem at home. Well, my choices
now (since like I said, no luck finding any kind of way to contact the
manufacturer of the device I bought), is to shop the big-box stores
for one that they can tell me works on Vista, which will probably mean
I'll just have to wait a few months until a Vista-tested product comes
about (Firewire would be fine, I do have a port on the new machine);
or maybe buy one of the new standalone boxes for this purpose that I
have read about, but that doesn't seem like as much fun.
richforman

What are you going to do with the VHS after you capture it? > Is your goal simply to convert tapes? You could just get a DVD recorder. Its a good way to get one without having to justify getting a new 'gadget' to the wife.

Yes, just convert them to digital to create dvd's and to be able to
store/backup the data, and maybe do some minor editing like adding
titles, dividing it into dvd chapters if it's not too hard.....what
kind of DVD recorder do you mean exactly? The devices I was looking at
on ebay including the one I bought were all really cheap and simple
(some didn't even have a box, just sort of a set of chords with rca
inputs on one end and usb connection on the other), nothing that would
need any big purchase-explanation to the wife; but now I think they'll
all have this same problem of the drivers just not working in
Vista.

richforman

A DVD recorder is like a VCR, only it uses recordable DVDs instead of tape. It typically will have a TV tuner and line inputs, exactly analogous to the equivalent of a VCR, and often a DV input as well (FireWire, that is).

He meant one of those (often called an STB = Set-Top Box).

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