EASYCAP USB 2.0 Audio Video Capture Adapter TV VHS DVD

by MiniSuit

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 2.1 x 1.5 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0019SSSMY
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (86 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #115 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 20, 2008

Product Description

Capture high quality audio and video through your PC's USB port. Capture playback from VHS, Camcorders, TV, etc; capture audio without a sound card! Supports NTSC, PAL, Video format. NTSC: 720 x 480 @ 30 fps PAL: 720 x 576 @ 25 fps. Please note that this item is not compatible with certain camcorders (please check your user manual). *NOT COMPATIBLE WITH VISTA 64*

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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great product if you know how to use it., November 26, 2009

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Brian Fensch "Xerosnake90" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: EASYCAP USB 2.0 Audio Video Capture Adapter TV VHS DVD (Misc.)

With all the negative reviews I've seen for this product, I can't believe no one has said anything like this. The Easycap is a GREAT product. For the price, you're getting more than what you've paid. No, the software does NOT crash constantly. If it does, it's your computer. It DOES record in color with clear sound, you just haven't adjusted the settings well. I hate seeing a negative review on a product when the negative is actually the user.

If you have any troubles with the product, go to youtube, look up some quality settings and follow them. You will have a great product.

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Here is how I got it to work..., July 21, 2009

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Yours Truly - See all my reviews

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This review is from: EASYCAP USB 2.0 Audio Video Capture Adapter TV VHS DVD (Misc.)

Hello All:

I have a security DVR which gives me direct AVI extracts out of its USB port, but without audio. So my project was to find a way to video capture extracts from the DVR. I bought this EasyCap. Had to make several passes with the WinXP driver install routines until all of EasyCap's drivers installed. Then I installed their video capture software. I was able to get sound but only got fuzz in the video display panel. Then tried Win XPs Movie Maker. Same thing albeit more frustrating. Movie Maker would lock up after each attempt. Next, I went out on a video capture software hunt and tried several other products which had trial downloads. No luck and I was almost at my wits end. My last stop happened to be nchsoftware, who offer the Debut video capture software. And the basic version is free.

Unbelieveably, after a little bit of fudging, the video feed from my dvr showed up in the Debut display on my pc. This amazing software lets you record in any of multiple formats: vcd, avi, mp4, etc. There are a couple of quirks, not so huge though. One is that in the 'tools' options to adjust the device I have to keep changing the video input format to NTSC_M each time I launch Debut. Culprit is EasyCap which keeps defaulting to PAL_B. Not sure why PAL_B was chosen as default while marketing to the US. Secondly, while recording I can see the green audio bar moving in the Debut display panel but cannot hear the audio.

After I 'stop' the recording session and replay the newly created file from 'recordings' on the menu I have both video and sound in the file.

Hope this information will help you too. Saved my day. And I recommend a robust donation to nch software for the free version of Debut. Alternately, buy the Debut Plus to support the company. They have a huge line of other video related products.

Hope this info helps you and good luck.

Ahmed

USA

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars so far, so good, June 8, 2010

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MoD-1 (Elsewhere, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: EASYCAP USB 2.0 Audio Video Capture Adapter TV VHS DVD (Misc.)

I bought 2 to stream video from 2 composite sources simultaneously.

Had them both up and running in xpsp3 within 15 minutes of opening the shipping container. Very simple, follow the directions: hook em up, put the cd in, let XP search for the drivers & install keep hitting "automatic" and away you go. Change the camera config to NTSB from PAL if you're in the US like me.

Win 7 was a little more tricky, I hooked it up, win7 tried to install some default drivers for video capture devices, they didn't install correctly, following the prompt I removed the adapter, that didn't solve anything so I hooked it backup, went into DM & updated the drivers by pointing to the drivers on the cd-rom and then forcing it to install the unsigned drivers, then rebooted and it worked. Not too difficult. Not trivial either. But this is standard fare for xp drivers in win7.

The units seem to be built well though they could use a standoff for side USB ports on a laptop, seem to be working like a charm...my only complaint is that at 30fps it's easy to see scanlines in the video when something moves through the camera FOV. But that could be the camera. I've definitely seen better video but this isn't too bad. The drivers are somewhat limited in the resolution options, my camera has 500-odd lines and none of the listed resolutions match this. So there's some black at the top of the video.

For the money it's a steal. If you are worried about flexibility or upgrades I'd have to look elsewhere. But then at $10 for one of these it's a safe & cost-effective fallback option. They definitely work and they definitely are cheap.