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| 435427 | 2006-03-04 06:45:00 | hi, i am busy transfering vhs to pc. first of all here is my specs: windows xp home 768mb ram 2.8ghz processor asus tv7134 wdm video capture 128mb nvidia geforce 5200 I use arcsoft shobiz 2 to capture my footage through a video composite lead. my problem is that i have a unusual streak across the bottom of my picture during record and on playback and can't seem to get rid of it. i have a 29in samsung tv with ntsc and pal compatibility if that helps. thank you |
Christopher (365) | ||
| 435428 | 2006-03-04 08:51:00 | I think you may be seeing what is called "overscan", which is usually eliminated by the so-called "safe" area in TVs. Try asking here (http://www.videohelp.com/) for more info. :) |
braindead (1685) | ||
| 435429 | 2006-03-04 17:09:00 | Hopefully, I think I know what you are seeing here, if not please disregard the following info as spurious and not germain to your problem . I used to get that sorta band across the screen when I copied VHS's to another blank . . . it was a security thing that spoiled the copy and informed you that there was security on the original . . . BTW: there was a trick I never tried but had reports that it worked for all who did it: If you take a cardboard cylinder of about 6 inches in diameter and about 10 or 12 inches long and wind over it 500 turns or #22 AWG wire (enameled, not plastic coated) and then a layer of wax paper and then another 500 turns of #22 AWG wire over that, you will have made a good inductive matched 1:1 coil-over-coil transformer that removes the security encoding and allows you to get the copy without a band across it . Make sure to keep the ends of the coils seperate . . . the inner coil is the receiver, the outer is the transmitter or inductor . This way the security scramble signal was not invoked as the playing vcr didn't see the other vcr as copying the data and there was no "parity" or "handshake" between the two vcrs . You would just be making a very short broadcast of the signal and that would not trigger the scrambler . There were reports that when this was going on and if you had a tv on channel 3 (US protocol) in the same general area that was receiving antenna RF, it could pick this signal up and also play the video and audio at the same time . . . . kinda a cheap broadcast antenna . |
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