PAL capture, odd flickering issue.

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  1. Jella

    Jella Member

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    Trying to turn old VHS (PAL) tapes into NTSC DVDs. My question isn't about authoring, though, but capturing.

    As I live in the States and everything's NTSC, including the VCR, I had to purchase a second-hand multi-format VCR, one that's built by Samsung (model SV-S97). I have it hooked up to my Radeon 9000 VIVO card via composite cable.

    The VCR automatically detects the format of the tape. When I play one of the tapes, it says PAL AUTO on the display. I have ATI's VideoIN set for Composite and PAL-B, currently.

    The problem is that the video preview (and capture!) looks extremely flickery. You can tell that the colours are displayed OK and all that, and for a second or so it plays fine and then it's a flickering mess that looks like the video feed is constantly getting overexposed or something.

    I captured a short clip to demonstrate, it is located at http://www.jella.net/bin/flicker.wmv

    I am thinking this might be an issue with ATI's capture drivers. I have updated them but am not sure if it "took".

    I have also tried all the signal format options VideoIN has, such as PAL-B, PAL-D, PAL-M, etc. Nothing helps.

    I'd welcome any ideas.
     
    Jella, Jun 20, 2005
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    Is it just me, or can anyone else NOT play the clip linked above?
     
    rebootjim, Jun 20, 2005
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    I can Play the File and it does Flicker really Badly...It looks simular to what happens when you capture Macrovision protected VHS tapes as the video Seems to Flash Bright and Dark but It looks somehow Different than the Macrovision Effects so I can not figure out what the Problem really is.....
     
    Minion, Jun 21, 2005
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    I had searched for SV-S97 details without succes because i am affraid that this vcr is not a real vcr system converter like my Aiwa MX100 or Samsung SV-5000W model or stand alone video converter boxes.It may be only a common multisystem vcr that can only play NTSC on Pal tv or Pal to NTSC tv options that are for viewing only and not at all for recording another tape or capturing.The setting in the 'VIDEO' tab of your Ati tv must be the same as you want the final dvd to be not as the tape is.In your case you have Pal tapes and need them on NTSC dvds and I had done this many times sucsesfuly.You only need a real video system converter.VCR or box and various models are only slihts quality differences.I can recomend some of them if you want.
     
    albertd25, Aug 4, 2005
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