jonr wrote:
Ajay Sharma wrote:
Have you tried to copy any macrovision-protected VHS tapes? If so, does your capture card generate all these jacked up video files as if you were doing a VHS->VHS copy?
I don't think I have ever tried to copy one of those, is there something on the VHS that would let me know if it had this type of protection? If so, I could try it out and then see what happens.
Well, when I used to do VHS->VHS copies back in the day the resulting tape would have really bad lighting which would fade in and out. That's usually the sign of macrovision. I hear they are developing something similar for DVD's so that you can't copy them with software like DVDShrink.
Thanks for checking for me!
--Ajay
Ahhh, I was wondering if that was macrovision. I had run into that also when I was trying to paste together a bunch of different clips from VHS videos to make a video presentation for a class, colossal waste of time.
The recording I got from the VHS tape was just as good as if I were watching it off of the VHS itself. I would expect to see the video fading in and out with poor lighting but I get none of that. So it looks like the macrovision is not an issue when recording this way.
I will pay closer attention from now on and let you know if I ever notice anything different but from all the VHS tapes I have copied to my HD, I have never had that problem.
YMMV,
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