Thread: How to transfer VHS to PC!!!! Please help

Make sure you have nothing running on your PC in the background like Anti Virus. Email etc... This can cause dropped frames. Also make sure your hard disk is defragmented and not too full.

Thanks for the quick reply and i dont have anything running in the background. I was wondering if it was the wiring i was actually using although i did buy the wires new from ebay

First thing is to check the tapes actually playback with sound on the tv properly. Any tiny jitters or jumps from dodgy worn tapes might well play on the TV, but as soon as your computer loses sync, it falls over and waves it's head in the air. So those old tapes where the picture gets noisy through the tapes or the video heads being worn won't transfer well. To put it into perspective - imagine what comes out of the the scar cable is around 1 volt at it's peak. the little pulse added in to keep things locked up solid is about a third of that - so not really very much - so if the sync is a little iffy, then the video captured will be poor too.

The other thing is that when you say rubbish - it doesn't help. Stable and solid but low quality, or good quality but jumpy, or periods with no no picture at all. Sound - if the picture is lacking in continuity of data input can simply mute and give up. So you'll have to provide a bit more info - rubbish quality, what kind of rubbish.

Hi yeh its stable but solid but low quality. Although i have managed to get capture the vhs in avi mode now without frames dropping however somehow it is 15 mins shorter then the one i captured in mpeg-1/2 and i still cant capture sound with the avi format one.