I've got several old video tapes that are copies of original 8 mm home
movies (I think they were 8mm). Some have captured pretty well but a
couple of others jerk and flash (very technical terms) even though they
look fine on the TV.

I'm using an e-home wonder tv tuner in a WMC 2005 Dell XPS 400. One of
the video's failed to capture when I got a "macrovision" error. These
aren't commercial VHS tapes in any way so there should not be a
macrovision lock.

Any ideas?

I have the same tuner card, but in fact get superior results from 'pass
thru' on my dv cam (I use PAL - i dont know if the same applies for
NTSC).....I know this doesnt directly address the issue, but if you have
access to a dv cam I would try that and use it for all my vhs transfers.

BTW Macrovision is based upon signal strength. So it may be there is
some video that puts out a high signal strength and the tuner card is
sesitive.....does it stop at the same point? Is there some white 'end of
film' issues?
If it is only one section of one tape you might try manual transfers

Hope this helps

Rob
cwr wrote:
> I've got several old video tapes that are copies of original 8 mm home
> movies (I think they were 8mm). Some have captured pretty well but a
> couple of others jerk and flash (very technical terms) even though they
> look fine on the TV.
>
> I'm using an e-home wonder tv tuner in a WMC 2005 Dell XPS 400. One of
> the video's failed to capture when I got a "macrovision" error. These
> aren't commercial VHS tapes in any way so there should not be a
> macrovision lock.
>
> Any ideas?
>