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Get an actual composite capture card for the job.
Ha, honestly, I wish that I would’ve done this to begin with. It’s way cheaper, and simpler to get the one composite capture card rather than converting composite to HDMI, then capturing HDMI. I’m honestly not entirely sure why I did the latter — perhaps it’s because I was under some presumption that such a device wouldn’t exist (which, now, I realize is an obviously silly assumption to make). I found this one. It’s still just a generic capture card, but it’s a direct composite capture. Do you think that it would suffice?
Check that the output is indeed interlacd
Is it possible to see this in OBS? I see an option to select an interlacing technique if I right click the scene
Look at stats/logs to see of any frames are dropped and investigate if it’s just the 59.94 Hz compensation
Are you referring to “stats/logs” within OBS?
make sure to disable auto-gain or else quiet sections will get boosted like crazy, increasing the noise.
If you are referring to a toggle on the capture card or the converter, neither have a button for that, so I think my setup is fine in that regard?
This was very informative! Thank you for your comment!
you should check that the video output is actually at [59.94 Hz]
How does one measure the input frequency of the video feed? I’m not aware of OBS being able to monitor the frequency/refresh-rate of individual input devices, but I could certainly be wrong.
Don’t use the converter if it cannot output 480i or at the very least 480p! Scaling should happen during playback, the files should be original resolution.
I looked on Amazon again, and it seems that every converter being sold only outputs 720p, or 1080p — none of them simply repeat the input resolution, eg 480p or 480i. Would you have a converter in mind that would accomplish this?
I’d just clean the VCR after every tape if I suspect mold. You’d still need to clean the cleaning VCR after every tape to avoid cross-contamination
Do you have any resources that you would recommend for proper cleaning of a VCR?
ELI5 How come it seems now the old [wives’] tale of Vietnamese eating pets and now its immigrants into the USA?
That’s still a rather incomprehensible sentence.
ELI5 How come it seems now the old wise tale of Vietnamese eating pets and now its immigrants into the USA?
I don’t understand that sentence.
vhs-decode
This is a very cool project! Thank you for sharing it!
Why a separate VCR for cleaning tapes?
I was just thinking that the cleaning process might damage the VCR (as one is rummaging around in its internals [1]), so it’d be better to use a worse quality VCR for cleaning, and a good quality one for digitization.
you should definitely not use default deinterlacing techniques for the video
What “default deinterlacing techniques” are you referring to?
you should […] especially not [use deinterlacing techniques] built into these generic dongles
How do I find out that information for the 2 things that I purchased (mentioned in the post)? How would I even control that? Only the composite to HDMI converter has a single switch from 720p to 1080p. I don’t see anything else that would control what interlacing technique is used.
Capture [the video] interlaced, preferrably as losslessly as possible
What method do you recommend to accomplish this?
use deinterlacing software where you can fine-tune the settings if you need to.
Is this possible in OBS?
TBC can obviously be done in software if you have the raw composite or head signal but that is not possible with the capture cards you have.
If I did want to capture the raw signal, do you have any methods and/or tools that you would recommend to accomplish this?
Thank you for the information! Perhaps that’s what this setting is:
I will disable it and report back.
EDIT (2024-09-09T22:09Z): @ccf@lemmy.world, unfortunately, with that setting disabled, I still am experiencing the stuttering.
Make it work, then make it better.
I really like this one. It’s borderline a mantra.
As a counter to perfectionism:
If it’s worth doing, then it’s worth doing poorly. [source: a reddit user]
Very clever use case!
As of 2024-09-03T22:10:25.545Z, Starlink is now complying with Brazil’s X ban [1].
“We immediately initiated legal proceedings in the Brazilian Supreme Court explaining the gross illegality of this order and asking the Court to unfreeze our assets,” Starlink says in a post on X. “Regardless of the illegal treatment of Starlink in freezing of our assets, we are complying with the order to block access to X in Brazil.”
Not really as those are public things.
Would you mind citing an example of exactly what you are referring to? I feel like I’m presuming a lot of things in your statements here.
Dhcp is more of a issue.
I don’t know if it’s “more”, or “less” of an issue, but all these things are worthy of concern.
If this is a legitimate test, note that there is a community specifically for this purpose: !test@lemmy.ml.
The rules are written so the admins and mods can maintain their positions and feelings without having to explain themselves.
There is no requirement that they must explain themselves. The beauty of the Fediverse is that if one doesn’t agree with an instance, then they don’t need to interact with it.
Its an insistence that whatever they do is right because they own the place.
It is their instance to run as they see fit. I make no attempt to force my opinions on them for how they should run their instance. I can only voice my personal opinions and challenge them to be accountable to theirs.
I agree — I was mostly stating that for the sake of clarity.
Good to know! That link has a lot of good information.
Noted! I will keep this in mind.
I came across this video about digitizing VHS tapes [1]. It talks about hardware to use, and hardware to avoid [1.6]. One of the examples that it gives for hardware to avoid seems to be a clone of the device that I was looking at on Amazon [1.2]. The rationale for why it should be avoided was that it doesn’t pass both fields of the interlaced video through independently [1.1]. Though, you have mentioned that it’s fine to capture the video interlaced, so perhaps this isn’t a big deal-breaker. The capture cards that the video recommends are:
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