Video Capture... Analog VCR tapes to Digital - without a PC & EASY - 1305

This turned out to be a very easy and good way to digitize old analog VCR/VHS.
Compared to my previous try with the USB Converters, this was very good! This little box might have been 10x more expensive but it was 100x better.
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[@Tigger4747]

This is really useful! Thanks very much. 😁

[@MyPlayHouse]

You're very welcome!

[@philsbbs]

thanks for recommendation ive ordered one for a friend as a xmas gift.

[@MyPlayHouse]

This was great! compared to all the issues getting those $6-7 USB things to work,, and it did not work, very well.

[@SwiatLinuksa]

Ooooo! Yeah!! That's i didn't expected on your channel. Thank you very much for that!!

[@AdrianuX1985]

Hej. Od kiedy obserwujesz jego kanał YT?

[@SwiatLinuksa]

@@AdrianuX1985 z 4 lata ;))

[@AdrianuX1985]

@@SwiatLinuksa Ja od 2018. W sumie to dokładnie nie pamiętam. ;-P

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi @SwiatLinuksa Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@adrianortiz7433]

thank you! ive been looking for a good capture device

[@MyPlayHouse]

I liked this one,, as it just worked!

[@bithappens6793]

How does it handle macrovision and de-interlacing?

[@MyPlayHouse]

I do not know,,, I would expect that the video I graped was interlacing,, so it did do that,,, but if or if not it ignores macrovision,, I do not know.

[@avfc1985]

Trying to upscale the video from that point would be an interesting experiment

[@MyPlayHouse]

I was thinking that maybe some AI,, could improve the quality,, it could look at many frames and add the details...

[@avfc1985]

@@MyPlayHouse it would make for a very interesting video!

[@evilbaron]

Ach, Miss Sophie. Nice. Dinner for One its called over here in germany.

[@MyPlayHouse]

"Dinner for One" I could not remember that when I was filming. :-) We made one with zombies..

[@skynetcybersystem3tech]

👍perfekt👍

[@MyPlayHouse]

Yes this was really good!!

[@plasmar1]

mine arrived, pretty good..... worked with usb 128gb stick(don't even know the format; noticed that some of the higher end models that do hdmi support an external hd, could be handy for some).... was getting some weird audio feedback when trying to get audio from my sony handicam, turned out sony is dumb and used a proprietary headphone jack pinout that is not backwards compatible; fix was just use a 3.5mm to rca splitter cable and use 1 audio channel(mono anyway:P) + svideo *** over the years I bought hauppauge colossus, pvr-150, a variety of 2nd hand usb tuners, 3-4 bt848 based cards; had plans to transfer vhs tapes to computer but getting stuff perfect/re-encoding stuff/etc was always a hassle nice to see stuff has come a long way

[@MyPlayHouse]

I was impressed with just how little I had to mess around with this! and it just worked. My camcorder on the other hand,, that had died since last time I messed with this. :-)

[@DoubleD666]

Can it be recording while there no date and logo above the screen?

[@MyPlayHouse]

Yes,, it does not record that. I was afraid of that as well.

[@anlealanleal3218]

I am a bit confused, does it works correctly with 16:9 and 4:3 screen format?

[@MyPlayHouse]

I would think so,, I did not test that :-/ it did have the option to do 1080P.

[@rafaprojetos242]

Congratulations on the video, @MyPlayHouse! I would like to know if the video quality of this UNISHEEN device (UR230A) is similar or superior to other devices used to capture VHS tapes, such as External DVD Recorders (Example: LG Rh397h) or if you have any other suggestions? I've already used the easycap USB external card and I didn't like the quality, some people recommend the Encore internal card (Enltv Fm3), I don't know if this UNISHEEN device (UR230A) is a good purchase, how has your experience been? Thank you very much!

[@MyPlayHouse]

If you get the USB video grabber, up and running they can be okay,,, but I did not get the same quality as on this unit (I have two one have good sound and the other has better picture) But this also just worked! and looking ar the comments on the videos on the USB grabbers,, that is not the case with them,, all sorts of issues.

[@leonardotoschi585]

Mvvblog had really good trouble getting the s2000 pro ups working... lcd went out and the fans were speeding

[@MyPlayHouse]

Humm where has he posted that video? I only have the S2000 ,,, not the PRO,, so I do not have the UPS funktion.

[@leonardotoschi585]

@@MyPlayHouse he made a livestream yesterday showing the battery running but not giving any image

[@MVVblog]

Yep is true.. i'm waiting to have another one. The first last only 2 days.

[@maxsadovnikov]

Hello. Is there a built-in battery?

[@MyPlayHouse]

No, it needs power,, but can run off a little power bank.

[@plasmar1]

average, as found on most torrent sites, movie at 720p is about 2gb~ now a day; that's not to bad(basing off analog cctv, the higher end models could do just under 720p before it went over to relying on digital signals).... there's always a few people who I guess know their stuff and get it to be like half that size for at 1080 but yeah:P

[@MyPlayHouse]

2GB is not bad any more,, now HDD are so big,, but back when 10-20GB was the drive sizes,, it mattered :-)

[@plasmar1]

never really went all out with video editing etc, but in high school, around 2k, was using an Abit TV@nywhere tuner card to capture svideo output to make a "music video" using gta 3 and vice city........ I had about 100gb total at the time(uncommon, but most of it was in used:P; this was also just as hd's were doubling in size almost daily it seemed).... I was getting about 1gb per hour for analog footage that wasn't nearly as good(monitor was 800x600, capture quality was more than likely a good bit lower).... to save on space ended up chopping up stuff to the bare minimum(no extra footage:P)

[@HeineChristensen]

Just to make it clear.... 720x576 is standard PAL resolution, so not a special DVD format. 🙂

[@MyPlayHouse]

VHS has like 240 lines,, so more like 320*240 But Betacam SP Digi. has 720*576 in PAL (That would be found at like TV stations after 1993) We normal people saw it when we got DVD.

[@EmmanuelRAYMOND69]

And for everything else, there is TPB ;)

[@MyPlayHouse]

I still haven't found that film, in anything other than a VHS rip... :-/

[@joshuapowell1868]

Great video everything proven people like myself are buying VCR players cleaning tapes vhs movies offline now days everything proven vhs tapes don't lock up at all like a computer does people like myself are fixing broken vhs tapes with Scotch tape it starts playing again with out no problem's

[@MyPlayHouse]

Need to get a good copy,, while I still can,, -ish,, should have done this years ago.

[@JohnnieHougaardNielsen]

Nice device. Still, it would have been a plus with a touch screen. These days, people are expecting easy pointing, instead of buttoning around in menus.

[@MyPlayHouse]

It is a very small screen,, it would be One Click :-)

[@bobsbits5357]

hi please if you are moving video of a betacam sp digi you will need alot better this is ok for home video's the higher the video high the unit or if you are doing for people you will have to get better i have one to test the out put of the decks i am fixing up there is a place for the low cost things never run them down

[@MyPlayHouse]

Well Betacam SP Digi should be 720*576,, just as this box was doing. But it could also do 1080P 19:05 but if more sound tracks are used on the betacam sp digi,,, this is not a good solution. My VCR is kind of creap,,, I am just not willing to use money on a new one,, as I will never use it.

[@Ole-Morten]

: )

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi @olemortennjrheim9059 Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@bluesteelbass]

Willing to bet with some effort, your "awful" recording can look not too bad at all. It seems with the video playback that you are missing half of the frames, and the capture is de-interlacing with a lazy algorithm of throwing out half the frames. If you care to travel down the path, a time base corrector getting a descent tape player's playback, captured with a $50 USB dongle(great raw video capture, audio only okay - audio capture devices would be even better) to some windows system, unvirtualized. The output could be captured and de-interlaced in OBS easily enough, and encoded in h.265 for space saving. If wanting to do an even better job, different software programs to capture the raw output, de-interlace, upscale and pantone correction optional, then finally re-encode to h.265 can be done.

[@MyPlayHouse]

This looks better than my previous USB dongle.