VHS capture...

[bgowland]

Alternatively you can take the UHF output of your VCR (if it has one) and just treat the signal as a standard antenna input.

My VCR plays back simultaneously through its SCART, Composite and UHF outputs. I've set mine to 'broadcast' on UHF channel 50 and just setup a standard antenna cap. source to tune to that. It works OK for me without any audio track bleed-through.

Cheers,
Brian

[Orbital]

Thanks..... You learn something everyday, I had no idea that it could be the audio track....

How do you decrease the bitrate on an Mpeg 2. I use Nero Vision II to burn my dvd's. It has an option to record anywhere from High to super Long play kinda like VCR's (EP/SP/LP). I set it for Super Long Play but it's still too Large. I'm off by .32 in size. I've trimed the video right up to the movie so I can't edit any more of the movie....

Does capturing in medium quality make a huge difference when your source is a VHS tape...... I'm thinking that would solve my file size issue when burning to DVD. Thanks

Thanks again.

[mairambia]

or you can visit and try VHS to DVD and copy your home video tapes to dvd. You can get a pretty good conversion at a reasonable price from a lot of places. But what are most of these companies lacking? Care and attention to detail! Other ways you get totally amateurish product done with domestic equipment.
link: http://www.vhs-to-dvd.com/

[firstblackboy]

OK this is a dumb question. I added a channel, but how do I config that channel to use the Ant. connection so i can record from the VHS to the hard drive. i followed the thread but i got lost somewhere. Could definately use some help. Thanks!

[blader_se]

I added a channel, but how do I config that channel to use the Ant. connection so i can record from the VHS to the hard drive.

You can define the source as "Fixed-Channel, External Tuner" and choose your "Constant Channel" number (50 was mentioned), see Config/DefineSource

[beekey]

I am also interested in using GB-PVR to capture video from a VCR. I used the information in this thread to set up everything, but I have a problem. I now have the VHS tape playing within GB-PVR, but it is in black and white only; there is no color. I've tried a couple tapes to much sure that isn't the problem, but they are all black and white. Do I have something setup wrong in GB-PVR or could this a be problem with my VCR or Capture Card? I am using the Hauppauge PVR-350.
Any ideas would be appreciated...

[sub]

I seem to remember some PVR350 owners having problems with the composite -> svideo adapter plug that came with their PVR350.

Also worth trying setting it to the svideo2 input or composite2/3 to see if it helps.

[pastro]

I seem to remember some PVR350 owners having problems with the composite -> svideo adapter plug that came with their PVR350.

Also worth trying setting it to the svideo2 input or composite2/3 to see if it helps.

Are you sure you have the right adapter that came with the 350? There is no standard for where the composite video shows up on the svideo connector so they can be different. Some SVHS units actually have Svideo outputs which would take the adapter out of the picture if your's had this.

[zaphod7501]

I have 3 capture sources set in GB-PVR. Two are S-Video for Hauppauge PVR250 and HVR1600 and a composite for the 1600. The audio needs to be connected to the PVR cards and not the motherboard or sound card or else you will get no audio on recordings and viewing will have a severe lipsync problem.

On a 350 I think you will have 2 inputs that can be set up as capture sources. The audio is shared between them as are some of the pins on the input jack. I would set up both capture sources and try both. You may have to set up several since GB-PVR shows more options than actually exist on the board (some newer board types have a header with additional input connections that GB-PVR has to account for).

There are two types of adapters in use. One of them just connects composite video to the "Y" connection pin of the S-Video jack. This hookup requires a capture source using the "composite" line input. The other type actually seperates composite into S-Video using simple filtering. This hookup would require a capture source using the S-Video input. That's why you need to try both since the adapters look alike.

[pastro]

I thought you had to use WinTV2000 to this this, which is a real pain. I have my VCR Hi-Fi Stereo hooked up Composite Video on PVR-150 and the Audio is going to my onboard sound input. That works but, can this work with GBPVR?

It works fine inside GBPVR. Setup the capture source with the same device ID as your PVR150 and select the composite or svideo input. I think I set the EPG source to none originally but now I use a fixed XMLTV file for the composite channel.
Add an unused channel and I think you are good to go.
You can't get to the channel through the guide but you can get to it by channel up/down.
I usually just do a manual recording for a fixed time and then stop it early when I'm done with the recording.