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hollyt9

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6. May 2005 @ 23:00

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hi,
i've been using a Lifeview FlyTv Platinum card to convert old VHS tapes over to DVD.
in the past i've just used a standard coaxial aerial cable, which has worked but produced a slightly grainy picture. in the hope of improving the picture quality i tried using a Scart to S-Video cable, (scart socket plugged into the VCR and the s-video into the FlyTv card.

the problem is when i use the s-video cable i get a distorted picture that looks like this, it flickers and scrolls across the screen.

any ideas what i can do to fix this?
thanks,
holly

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Minion

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7. May 2005 @ 18:13

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I don"t know if this is your problem but there is No advantage to useing S-Video if you use an Adapter to go from RCA/Composite to S-Video...This is because S-Video uses Luminance and Chrominance signals and RCA/Composite uses RGB I believe and an adapter can not properly convert the RGB to Luminance and Chrominance signals so you actually get worse quality when useing a S-Video adapter than when useing the Regular RCA/Composite Outputs on the VCR.....

Many S-Video adapters do not Work properly and will usually end up giveing you a Distorted Picture or a Black and White picture so you are Better off Quality wize to Simply useing the RCA/Composite outputs on your VCR than useing an Adapter to go to "S-Video"...

You could also get a High End VCR that has a S-Video output...and When captureing from a VCR you should be useing the Best quality cables you can afford and they should Be Gold Plated and Double EMI Shielded which will give you a Much better Signal than useing cheapo Thin non-Shielded Cables......

Cheers

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hollyt9

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8. May 2005 @ 05:48

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thanks for the advice.

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