Customer Reviews

USB2.0 DV/TV/VHS/DVD Camcorders Video Audio Capture AV Adapter card Win 2000, XP, vista compatible H35

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(11)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(8)
1 star:		(32)

 

 

Length:: 2:37 Mins

This product works quite well, and it does work on Windows 7, both 32-bit and 64-bit. To get it to work on those two systems this is what you do: Go to youtube, and search: easycap on windows 7


Once you find a video, there should be links in the description of the video for the drivers. Once you are finished it should work perfectly fine because it works awesome for me and I have Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit on my laptop. Hope this helps for those of you who are wondering how to get it to work on windows 7. Let me know if you have problems and I will try my best to help you out. Thanks.

A year ago, I bought Pinnacle's Instant DVD Creator w/DVC90 capture device. I like the Pinnacle software, but always had a problem with the DVC90, which finally quit. I picked this up as a replacement, and installed it on my XP powered dv8000 HP notebook. Works great,no problems. I saw the bad Vista review and can sympathize. I've also had problems with Vista's compatibilty issues on other devices (haven't tried this device on the platform). Bottom line.....this device works great for me. The Chinese to English translator needs a little work on his sentence stucture,however.

The product arrived quickly, but both the Amazon description and the poorly translated manual failed to inform me that it was completely incompatible with my 64-bit Vista OS, news I had to hear directly from the seller in the process of asking for a refund.

"Vista compatible" is thoroughly misleading, and would have been even more so had I not known to ask about the 32-bit/64-bit difference. After spending many fruitless hours searching for a way to install the drivers to this device I also learned that even those with appropriate operating systems had more than their fair share of frustration in trying to go through the "very simple" installation process.

At the very least I expect an institution I trust as much as Amazon to verify the information on the basis of which I wasted time and money, though I realize (or at least assume) that the site is constantly working towards improving quality, including by way of these reviews?

I have returned this product, but my shipping cost, as well as my time, will not be refunded.

The seller's communication was quick and respectable, and I thank the seller, but I cannot give this product more than 1 star.

I got EasyCap for 2 reasons - to transfer VHS tapes to DVD and to transfer audio cassette tapes to MP3 using a laptop which had no line in jack. I was thwarted on the audio transfer because this only has Mono audio inputs. Of course, there are left and right RCA jacks, but the input is still converted to Mono.

Still, my initial use of the VHS transfer is that it is pretty easy once you get it setup and gives pretty decent quality.

All in all, this is well worth the $20.

Can't beat the price and it works on Vista 32 bit.

Note, you will need a basic composite video cable (with male heads on both sides, red, yellow, white), since the inputs are all female and whatever you are getting the video from will also all be female.

The Software worked on Vista 32 bit, but I found that the free program AMcap (just google it) worked better (didn't seem to lag in longer videos). Make sure that under the Devices tab that the Microphone USB Audio Interface is selected, that capturing audio is selected and the composite video is set. Also, setting it to the WMV compression, seemed to create less lag. Note, when preview the audio plays, when capturing the audio will not play (but the recorded file will have the audio on it). Also, it suggest the video file will be many many many gigabits in size, but will really be in the hundreds of MB.

I can only FULLY recommend this for SHORTER videos or videos that you don't mind breaking up, as longer recordings can tend to start lagging where it jumps or where the

For the free software that cam with the product, on the Capture Tab, click on the Options icon and under "Capture Options" make sure that the box "Capture Audio" is selected, and under the same Options icon, select, "Video and Audio Capture Property Settings", and check the box under the Source tab that says "Preview audio from USB device". Under the same Source tab, make sure that under Video, Input Source is set to "Video Composite". Under the Capture Tab, the "Use Software Compression" might help with lag between the audio and video.

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I wanted to digitize some VHS tapes, so I bought the EasyCap. Bottom line: I was able to digitize on my Win 7 system. The captured video looks okay, but the sound is of poor quality, especially of the shooter's comments. The included software works, but I couldn't get it to display a playing VHS tape without recording it. That is, if you won't to see the tape content before recording it, you can't, or I couldn't. Overall, the little device is worth the low price and okay for what I wanted to do: that is digitize some 20-30-year old VHS tapes that are not up to current video quality, anyway. In fact, they are dubs, them self (copies of the originals).

I've attached a video clip, so you can judge for yourself.

I bought this and it worked on XP. Computer died and bought a new one , no driver for windows 7.
No customer support. Homepage sends you to a forum they don't respond to . CRAP Squared.
This thing is useless unless you have an old computer. Now I find out it has been screwed since VISTA for a lot of users. This stinks, stinks , stinks. USELESS waste of money . Bought off Amazon, Now not even usefull as a paperweight.

I was using this to capture the saved DVR episodes from my DTV-DVR with the hopes of putting shows on DVDs.

First, the capture does NOT read the yellow analog input. You must "trick" it into using the s-video. The s-video ONLY works if you save in certain formats (.mpeg, .avi) which are the larger formats. The video quality is excellent if you are willing to have huge file sizes (10 minutes will be larger than 250 MB).

THE SOUND!?!?!??!?! An absolute joke. Of course you must adjust the input level lower than MAX, which is the default, but ANY FILE LONGER THAN 8-10 MINUTES AND THE SOUND NO LONGER SYNCS WITH THE VIDEO. I did a show that was 50+ minutes long and by the end of it, the sound was a full 4-5 seconds behind the video. TERRIBLE. I had to save it in sections of 10 Minutes at a time and then edit it together myself. AND I DID NOT USE THEIR LACKING SOFTWARE. Don't use it, it is pathetic. I had to use the windows installed Movie Maker, which was great.

Summation: If you want cheap cost and you only have short videos, buy this product. If you want longer videos and possibly burn them onto DVDs, DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT.

This video capture device does work with Windows 7, but not with the driveres provided on the disk. Windows 7 installed the audio capture device, but couldn't find a driver for the video capture device. I tried loading it in compatibility mode, but that didn't work correctly, either. I finally downloaded a driver from another company selling a similar device, and it worked. Once installed, the capture device works great - just don't try using the software that came with it. I suggest using software from NCH Software or something like that - the software that came with kept dropping frames and the audio kept dropping out. It wasn't usable. With NCH Golden Videos or Debut capture software, it works very well and I'm satisfied.