Need some help in doing VHS/Camcorder --> AVI Conversion .. !

[ahmadka]

Hi guys. Well I just got my EasyCAP USB Video Capture Adapter today, and wanted to try storing some of my childhood Camcorder moments in AVI format on my PC, but I am having a few hiccups. I'm a n00b at this

1) I need some good small software to capture the video, and save it in AVI format. No fancy video editing stuff is needed. Simply dumping the video in AVI format will do for me. I already know of DScaler, and STOIK Capturer. Please suggest me some other similar tools too.

2) The video I am trying to capture is Interlaced. I need to de-interlace it. I have already tried enabling the Deinterlace filter in ffdshow's encoding settings, but its not working. How do I deinterlace easily ?

3) Some someone tell me how to properly enable De-interlacing in DScaler too ?

4) Lastly, I am having this strange problem. Video Capture video preview is very smooth in Windows XP, under all programs, but in Vista, the video preview is *very* slow. You see the frame change like once in every 10-15 seconds !!! What could be the problem here ?

Thanx for the all the help people

[pfloyd]

Try WINDV.

[ahmadka]

The point bugging me the most is the last one. Why isn't it working in Vista ?

[pfloyd]

that's why i am still using xp.

[drfsupercenter]

Heh, of course... Vista sucks.

As far as deinterlacing, you could try Auto Gordian Knot, it's usually pretty good at that. I'd tell you how to do it by hand, but it often takes a lot of fooling to get the results to look perfect... and that can be more complicated than just opening a program.