GV-USB2 Review (Analog Video Capture Follow-Up)

I'd never done a crazy thing in my life before that night. Why is it that if a man kills another man in battle, it's called heroic, yet if he kills a man in the heat of passion, it's called murder?
00:00 Intro
01:14 Inane Rant
01:55 The Review
03:59 Video Samples and Comparison
05:57 But
08:07 Summary

[@the.squidd]

So rarely is there actual entertainment in the reviews of this niche weirdo hardware, this was awesome, thank you... BUT

[@CantankerousDave]

Defiantly subscribed, both to be infotained, and to be reminded of the late, great voice actor Tony Jay. Seriously, you sound just like him.

[@reasonsreasonably]

I see you have gained several subscribers since I started watching your channel an hour ago! 299 and counting! GO GO GO!!!

[@ReasonablyBritish]

I told them not to subscribe, yet they continue to defy me.

[@reasonsreasonably]

@@ReasonablyBritish 310 today, but I think it was as high as 312 earlier, so I think those two plebs either came to regret their decision to subscribe, or decided to heed your warnings about their sanity, unlike every explorer in a H.P. Lovecraft book. Love how you give Blackmagic (Resolve/Fusion are great) the Hitch-slap treatment, and Tinky is my new hero. Seriously, this channel is gold. You have me watching you apply glues, ffs. Interestingly enough, I actually do need to know about a good leather glue, eventually, so that video is turns out to be useful beyond the humor value. Lastly, I normally despise long intros that try to be funny, and other wastes of time in videos, since I explore YT for videos on how to learn X or Y skill. However, you are the exception. Maybe because I come here to LOL instead of learn. Yet, learn I do. Peace.

[@duncanmacleod2136]

@@ReasonablyBritishat 7:50 you mention square pixels being wrong but if you know you are only uploading the video to KZbin I would try square pixels. KZbin doesn’t care about PAR DAR and flags. It will resize your video to square pixels if you upload it as 720 by 480. If you capture at 640 by 480 then stretch it to 720 by 480 KZbin will shrink it down to 640 by 480 automatically. You don’t really want a bunch of resizing. Also the digital faq guys use a lossless codec in an AVI container to prevent loss during deinterlacing and other things. I am not sure about adding flags with OBS. I haven’t used OBS but it’s really not meant for capturing VHS. It’s screen recording software.

[@richh650]

Reasonable reach around. Priceless! The GVUSB2 for the, almost, win.

[@grkblood]

Great video! After watching this I'm even happier with my choice to use the GV-USB2 since I'm strictly doing VHS capture. I'm a Linux user at heart, so when I first started capturing it was attempted on Linux, but I was having driver issues so I set up a Windows machine just to avoid headaches since I was already having enough trying to find the best capture setup combo for the price. Also, most people suggest staying away from using OSB for capturing and since that seems to be the only supported option for Linux it was just another reason to set up Windows for capturing. I'm using AmarecTV to capture and Virtualdub with QTGMC for deinterlacing and editing/compressing.

[@brontgladiron9033]

You are the ONLY KZbinr that makes me laugh and that I trust when it comes to reviewing analog video capture devices. Your test pattern comparisons are the only true test of image quality. Could you PLEASE review some that will work with Macs. I do plan on using OBS along with a quality device that has an iOS driver. I can't find any definitive videos...anywhere!

[@ReasonablyBritish]

Yeah, a good Mac capture thingy is turning out to be a tall order… but the hunt continues! - Many thanks!

[@jeanguillaume4589]

@@ReasonablyBritishouch…. So to digitize hi8 to a Mac would you say go $89.00 Elgato or $15.00 Chinese?

[@ReasonablyBritish]

Elgato. The Chinese one is a joke. Although if you’ve got a hi8 camcorder and an old-ish Mac, you may be able to FireWire the camcorder directly to the Mac and use OBS. I haven’t done that in a long time, so it MIGHT work. If you really care about quality, neither of these are good.

[@jeanguillaume4589]

@@ReasonablyBritish the only port on the camera is an A/V out.. not sure about the FireWire thing. Also, I must say your video was well crafted and so fun to watch for such a basic subject!

[@ReasonablyBritish]

@jeanguillaume4589 many thanks, good sir! AV out usually means you’d still need a capture device. If it had FireWire, it would likely say DV or 1394. Oh well…. Good luck!

[@aaprods]

I've been a fan of the GV-USB2 for a couple of years now. Nice to know it has been given the blessing of approval by the Reasonable Pom! 😀

[@rorcarrot1]

Interesting to see, if youre considering continuing this series could you maybe look at the startech devices? They have an s-video usb device similar to this one and a usb 3.0 with other input options, would be great to see how they compare to all the other devices you have, it would be amazing if you created a repository of all analog converters out there (or at least the notable ones) cheers!

[@RetroRGB]

I tested the audio quality using MD Fourier and it's excellent. And actually stereo ;p Really sucks this didn't have any kind of Time Base Correction though ;/

[@DoubleMonoLR]

Even the easycap cards have good audio to be fair(though they don't all use the same chips, and some are apparently mono pretending to be stereo), they're significantly better for audio capture from a tape deck or turntable etc, than they are for video.

[@kennyloish4682]

I use that capture card GV-usb2 and I also use Rocxo VHS to DVD they both work so good.

[@nowornever23]

Great review!...maybe you can compare some upscaling AI tools like Topaz and Pixop...I mean, like VHS to 4k...greetings from SouthAmerica...

[@Brucetapes]

RetroTink-5X PRO has a TBC feature. By the way, at 05:10, you can clearly tell that RetroTink preserves highlights better.

[@ReasonablyBritish]

Have u used the TBC on it? Any thoughts?

[@Brucetapes]

@@ReasonablyBritish Sadly I don't have the 5X. It's hard to find any decent reviews of it (using for VHS captures)

[@dotbot3827]

@@ReasonablyBritishAny chance you can run a gradient chart to adjust GV-USB2 luminance like you did the Startech dingleberry?

[@ReasonablyBritish]

@@dotbot3827 Not sure if this is quite what you're looking for, but it's what I made sooooo.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKXMdnyqa7Jonck Can you put links in YT comments? I don't know how to computer. I guess we'll find out..

[@archaicfossil4263]

did you do the voice over for the eyetoys first game :'D

[@intrusive4307]

Did you install windows on your Mac? If so, what path did you take? I’ve got a MacBook Pro (M1 Silicon) and I’ve just bought the GV-USB2, I’m looking at using parallels with windows 11 but unsure how it will function.

[@ReasonablyBritish]

I tried virtualizing Windows under UTM, but it didn’t work. Ended up wiping a spare Linux machine to install Windows on bare metal. There may be way to do it with a virtual, but I didn’t find it. Good luck!

[@ceesKe12]

this doesn't work for an iMac?

[@channel11121]

Hmm, my comment got removed :( I thought I must have accidentally clicked delete when I edited it, but no, it was deleted again. Please let it through youtube's autofilters!!

[@tyx823]

use the retrotink 5x

[@ReasonablyBritish]

I have it. It’s amazing.

[@superdupercake]

canadian is actually a mix of cantonese and hindu, im very insulted

[@liltoker1996]

Now THAT’s a thumbnail, 😂!! Got you a click and like from me

[@liltoker1996]

Update: also a subscription as well, this is too goddamn fucking much oml💀🤣

[@taymur0804]

One thing that may be good about Elgato is that it can tolerate VHS line noises unlike GV-USB2 which creates dropped frames and shows a blue screen(not the Windows error blue screen)for a few seconds, but as you mentioned I appreciate the weave deinterlace to preserve both fields in one frame for raw capturing.

[@teegees]

Are you a clone of HG Tudor? Lol Anyway, I’m very curious what you make of the ClonerAlliance Box Pro. No seriously, I am. Your testing protocol is pretty solid. It was difficult but I did not subscribe.

[@ReasonablyBritish]

I’m too narcissistic to be a clone of someone else.

[@teegees]

@@ReasonablyBritish Well played.

[@louderthanlife]

NAMBLA? Really? 🤮

[@reasonsreasonably]

Can we agree that we all love Blazing Saddles and the like, and that we wish that comedy didn't have to look over its shoulder at all times? He was clearly poking fun at himself, and almost everyone these days on the KZbins has no idea what that even was, I'm not even going to repeat it, but it passed by so fast I missed it until YOU mentioned it here in the comments. This is not a pro-(insert the topic of our comments) video, so it's not a problem IMO. Comedy. Lighten up?

[@louderthanlife]

Bruh. There's nothing remotely funny about pedophilia. That makes you giggle? Nice try at shaming me for noticing it in the first place. I laugh at a lot of twisted shit but that isn't one of them. Ya'll enjoy your pedo 'jokes'.@@reasonsreasonably