On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 20:58:37 -0400 "Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I record from the tuner of the VCR (i.e. turn VCR on, tune a > channel) the recorded picture looks good, and if I play a > "commercially produced" videotape, the capture looks good. However, > if I try to play a VHS-C videotape and record that, I get distortion > (like bad horizontal sync) along the top border (top 10-20 > scanlines) and the last couple of scanlines at the bottom are > "garbage". This is normal. Old tapes often suffer from this, probably due to inferior mechanics in the machines they were recorded with. You can reduce the distortion by using a macrovision removal gadget or, if money is no object, a time base corrector. Or you can just crop it off. Martin ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here:http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/358/0 _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
