Customer Reviews

EasyCAP USB 2.0 Audio/Video Capture/Surveillance Dongle

5 star:		(67)
4 star:		(48)
3 star:		(39)
2 star:		(27)
1 star:		(87)

 

 

With all the negative comments about this product I wanted to give it a fair chance. I am writing this review because as a fellow online purchaser, product feedback is very important in making your purchase decisions. I almost did not buy this product because of the negative reviews but for $15 I figured it would be worth the risk and now I am glad I bought it. I have made a couple DVDs so far and it has been trial and error but I am getting better each time. This product works and so far is working great. The hardest part is learning to use the software that comes in the package with the Easycap. Just a few steps to get you going... Put the disc in prior to inserting the easy cap. When it autoruns then click on the install driver option. (There are more in depth directions that come with the product but they were in broken English so I'm trying to help with that.) The directions say to tell it not to search the internet then continue on and eventually you will get to a screen that says it has not passed windows logo testing. The directions say to click "continue anyway". Once the drivers are installed then plug in the device. Complete the install new hardware wizard and then it will probably show another device which is the sound and it should install itself. After everything is finished, then on the disc menu click install video studio. Install that and you are ready to go. Plug in your other device (VCR, gaming system, camcorder etc.)Start up the program and click on videostudio editor, it will load up and then click on the capture tab. Then click on the video capture button. (Be patient here this might take a little bit to load stuff in but it won't show it loading it also might mute your system while the sound is integrating.) There is a format line. The default is AVI, I believe, but you will want to set it to MPEG for DVDs and also so you don't take up all of your hard drive (since AVI files are about 1 Gigabyte per minute of video one hour of video would take up a huge chunk of your hard drive. I know this because I used up my entire hard drive on a couple of videos :-) PLEASE NOTE: there is a little gear that says options. Click it then click "video and audio capture property settings..." MAKE SURE: that under the source tab the TV system says NTSC instead of the default PAL that comes up. IF YOU DO NOT DO THIS YOU MAY NOT SEE ANYTHING COME UP ON THE SCREEN AND MAY NOT BE ABLE TO CAPTURE OR BURN VIDEO ONTO DVD. Also under capture tab I clicked the customize button and put 720 X 480 frame size because if you don't when it burns to DVD it will have to convert it anyways. I also put the speed/quality slider bar all the way over to quality because I'm burning family videos and I could care less how long it takes as long as the quality is best. (Adjust this as you see fit). Next step is to click on capture video and when done click stop capture. You will notice the video is displayed in a little square in the top right corner. You can click this and view it. When you are done recording and ready to make a disc click the share button at the top and add media as you see fit. You can also edit menus and backgrounds later on. Also notice there are tabs at the bottom left that allow you to change the TV ratio (I use 16:9) and tabs for settings. There is much more to be said about the program but I have not used all the features and this is only to help you get going so you can enjoy your product. I hope this review has been useful and as I said this is a great product for the price. I have had the product for about a week and I have been working on transferring my family videos to DVD and so far it has been great!

This product is great but not perfect it has better quality then a DAzzle but only after i change some settings in the capture area heres how i did it
1. click capture video but don't capture.
2. click video type.
3. click mpeg.
4. click options, then click the 'SECOND' option.
5. click capture up in the tabs of the options.
6. move the quality meter all the way up to 100%.
7. then click advance.
8. make the quality DVD then scroll to the bottom then click 720 by 620 NTSC or the PAL option right below it if your in Europe.
9. the click display area and make it 16.9 then make the bit rate constant bit rate.
10. keep the audio were it is expect if the bit rate is under or above 224kbps then make it 224kbps to remove static.
11. now download a media encoder because MPEG isn't compatible with alot of programs.
13. Now record i bet the quality will be 999999999X better!
14. now click this review was helpful.

I recently bought one of these and I think I may know why so many people are having issues with getting theirs working. Many of the EasyCAP DC60s being distributed are cheap, poor-quality (and often broken) fakes. I purchased one of these video adapters as a belated birthday present for my son. The item I bought was listed as "new", but when he opened the package, he found that the CD that contained the software for the installation and operation of the adapter was a Mitsubishi brand blank disk with said software burned onto it. My son assumed that I had simply bought him a used EasyCAP, that the previous owner had lost the original CD and that he had burned a replacement CD before selling it back. After installing the software and plugging in the video adapter, my son found that his computer did not recognize that any drivers for the device had been installed. After researching drivers and fixes to the problem, my son eventually found the website of Shenzhen Forward Video, the supposed official manufacturer of the EasyCAP DC60+. Shenzhen Forward Video has given a statement ([...]) claiming that someone has been poorly reproducing and distributing EasyCAP products. In addition to that, it appears as though Shenzhen Forward Video never made an EasyCAP DC60 in the first place; the only model listed on their website with "DC60" in the name is their DC60+, of which production has been discontinued.

I am not the only person to have come to the conclusion that they were sold an imitation. During his search for a solution to the drivers problem, my son found a website ([...]) where someone else who had unwittingly bought two broken EasyCAPs and managed to get his hands on a third, working model posted photos comparing the real thing to the reproductions.

If you're looking to buy a video adapter, I would suggest that you stay clear of the "EasyCAP" brand altogether because you may not get what you paid for.

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

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Great on Xbox 360 just make sure you have all your formats correct and it gets the job done. i dont know why it has so many poor reviews i believe you have to know somewhat about computers before you jump to video editing and capturing this device isnt hard to use at all but you have to know more about computers then sending emails and going on youtube to use it at your full desire.

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I purchased this item a few months ago because I finally wanted a video capture device to transfer our old home movies to disc, so that we'd have them for much longer than VHS can ever last. Surprise, it didn't work. It wasn't compatible. I decided since it was cheap to buy I'd keep it and wait until I upgraded my computer. I just bought a new laptop setup for multimedia applications and running Windows 7 64bit Home Premium edition. Guess what, the device still doesn't work. It turns out that this particular device is only able to run on XP, Vista, and prossibly Windows 7 32bit edition. It's too bad that when I purchased it, the tech specs didn't say anything about that. Just plug-and-play! Well, that's bull. I searched around the internet for days looking for updated drivers. All that I found were spoof links that downloaded malware, or nothing at all. Unless you have a computer running the specific operating system, don't get this device. I can't even locate a manufacturer, so I can't contact them on getting a driver. Microsoft doesn't have any drivers, and no one will offer support on this device. It's an old model, and they want it gone. So, take my advice, let it collect dust on the maker's shelf, not yours.

I have been a PC support tech for 20+ years. This device does work, but takes expert knowledge to get the drivers working correctly for both video and audio and to find the correct drivers. (try googling for "EasyCap DC60 drivers" and read some of the posts to see what I mean) But I was able to get it working on Windows XP Pro 32bit and it does ok at capturing video using the small capture exes that come with the driver or using "Virtual VCR" which is a nice freeware capture program that can use video codec encoding to reduce the size of the capture files. (works great with the ffshow codec) However it does not work when trying to capture directly from some larger video packages like "VideoStudio Pro X2" so you have to capture the video using the other capture programs first and then you can import those videos in to the other programs to do the fancy editing. And believe it or not I was able to get this version of the EasyCap DC60 working on Windows 7 Pro 64bit even though it requires using unofficial drivers. I found them here: [...] But it might take some tweaking to get it working correctly. Your mileage may vary since these are a cheap knock offs and do not seem to be consistent. So my advice is if you have any doubts you might want to spend the extra money to save the headaches. To get it working on both OSes took me most of a day searching the net for drivers and tweaking things. Note it did install the drivers on XP from the CD that came with it just fine, however I only got audio and no video even after ensuring it was set to the correct Composite input and NTSC, etc, (which it defaults to PAL) so I had to find and install other drivers to get it working and to be honest I install so many, I am not sure where I got the ones that finally worked on both video and audio correctly. All in all I am satisfied for what I was wanting to do with it.

Even though this product was getting some bad feedback from a few individuals, I decided that it would be worth giving it a shot for only about $15. I had low expectations for this product from the minute I ordered it, even though I looked on YouTube to see how the quality of the video and audio was- and it seemed like pretty okay quality. To my amazement, the product arrived on time and was in great condition out of the packaging. By simply adjusting the settings of the provided software and a little bit of editing using Windows Movie Maker, I was able to have HD quality videos. This was definitely money well spent. My only complaint is that the provided software will not run correctly using Windows 7; however, the description on the disc says that it is only compatible up to Vista, so try to avoid if your computer is running Windows 7.

Other than that, great product, fast shipping, five stars. =)

1/9 EDIT: You CAN run it on Windows 7, but you have to find the drivers for it yourself; it will work fine after that.

The Easy Cap video capture works with Windows Vista,but you may have to change the defualt configuration to composite as which its set to tv tuner.By using the included software which is Ulead Video SE you will be able to record whatever is plugged into the composite,svideo.I used an old VCR to transfer my VHSs to my computer which I then edited and burned to DVD. You could also attach camcorders and other video sources like maybe an external tuner or game console just as long as your using composite or svideo.The only thing that I noticed was while previewing and recording there was no sound.But after it was recorded from the source and played the sound was then apparent.Overall, it is less expensive then others and it produces good quality video and Audio.

My husband scoffed when I purchased this program, he was all about buying something alot more expensive that had more software. This little gadget is wonderful, I didn't even install the software, only they drivers.I captured the videos to my external hard drive and then made movies with my WinDVD creator...Simple and easy to use, plus it is compact.