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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Here is how I got it to work..., July 21, 2009
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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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Be an expert!, September 2, 2009
My father has an old analog video camera and we want to convert the tapes to digital files. So I bought this Easy CAP, figuring it is cheap and there was a chance that it would just work. We used the yellow and white leads, as the videocam does not have S-video. After installing the driver (XP), and rebooting for good measure, I could get audio but not video, using the capture page of Pinnacle Studio. Then I tried the capture facility of Sony Vegas, and it could not use the device at all. I thought about installing Ulead, which comes with the device, to see if it worked. But I did not really feel like installing yet a third video program. So I gave the device to my son, who went to work on Linux. After downloading a device driver, recompiling it, and tweaking it extensively (using mencoder and VLC) he can get mpegs with sound and video. Too bad Pinnacle is bad at using mpegs as input! Anyway, it IS possible to get this thing to work, but you need to be pretty persistent.
Update: tried installing on Vista to see if that would be simple. It was not: got a generic "driver failed to install". As for the mpegs produced on Linux, the sound is poor, with a pulse to it, but that could be the old camera.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not good, December 27, 2008
Bought with great hope, small price. But severly dissapointed, couldn't make a single copy of any VHS, trying all the recommendations on the enclosed guide. I have an IBM T 42 with windows XP professional.Impossible to get to show anything on the window that opens when connected, no audio. Tested with different computers.
When ending it starts making a menu witch doesn't end ,much longer then the time of recording- it has to be stopped by interrupting the whole computer,sorry, be aware and test it so to be able to return it. I live in Aregentina and can't go back to the store or send it back because of the shipping cost
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