[MPlayer-users] Re: recording from video tapes (a novice question)

[Leonardo Boselli]

Il 8 Aug 2003 alle 20:44, Janusz S. Bie immise in rete:
> When watching I see no difference in quality between TV and video tape
> playback (at present the analog VCR is connected to the antenna
> socket) I can also record the TV broadcast with good quality.
> However, when I record the video tape playback, the quality is
> unacceptable (there is no sound or it is distorted, video itself is
> also distorted). Does anybody else also have this problem? Is there a
> known solution?

Are you using the SAME cables between the capture board and the 
TV/VCR ? If not, it could be an impedence mismatch.
"Video distorced"... is it distorced in the term of missing sync or in the 
term of color curve alteration ?
In any case it looks as an HW problem, not OS related !

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