My oldest CD-R is from 7 Oct 1996. I just copied its entire contents to my hard drive without encountering any errors, so it *appears* to be entirely readable. The CD-R is a Verbatim "DataLifePlus" CD-R, and it is dark blue. The contents were burnt at 1x speed. The contents are only 250 Mbytes, so it is not close to full.
Yeah, I am capturing at 29.97 fps (US - NTSC), but it's a good thought. The "jumpy" video isn't continuous, it only happens as "glitches" lasting for a second or two every 10 minutes or so, a minor annoyance. It only happens on with some VHS recordings too - usually really old (8+ years) EP speed recordings. I suspect it is either due to the VCR or the capture card being too cheap, but I just find it weird that frames aren't dropped when it happens.
When capturing video from VHS tapes, I don't usually encounter audio sync problems unless the tape is really degraded and a lot of frames are dropped. In the event of audio sync problems, I've met with some success in correcting it by tweaking the frame rate using the VirtualDub video editor.
That broadcast video processor is neat, but very expensive. If you're capturing with a Hauppauge card, VirtualDub has a plug-in called the BT8x8 Tweaker that will do some of the things that this expensive box does, from what I can tell.
I've lately been converting several hours of video on VHS tapes (EP speed) to VCDs, and the most frustrating thing has not been audio sync problems but "jumpy" video. Strangely enough, when the video jumps I do not drop frames. Manual tracking on the VCR has helped a little bit with this problem, but it still haunts many of my oldest VHS tapes.
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My oldest CD-R is from 7 Oct 1996. I just copied its entire contents to my hard drive without encountering any errors, so it *appears* to be entirely readable. The CD-R is a Verbatim "DataLifePlus" CD-R, and it is dark blue. The contents were burnt at 1x speed. The contents are only 250 Mbytes, so it is not close to full.
Yeah, I am capturing at 29.97 fps (US - NTSC), but it's a good thought. The "jumpy" video isn't continuous, it only happens as "glitches" lasting for a second or two every 10 minutes or so, a minor annoyance. It only happens on with some VHS recordings too - usually really old (8+ years) EP speed recordings. I suspect it is either due to the VCR or the capture card being too cheap, but I just find it weird that frames aren't dropped when it happens.
When capturing video from VHS tapes, I don't usually encounter audio sync problems unless the tape is really degraded and a lot of frames are dropped. In the event of audio sync problems, I've met with some success in correcting it by tweaking the frame rate using the VirtualDub video editor. That broadcast video processor is neat, but very expensive. If you're capturing with a Hauppauge card, VirtualDub has a plug-in called the BT8x8 Tweaker that will do some of the things that this expensive box does, from what I can tell. I've lately been converting several hours of video on VHS tapes (EP speed) to VCDs, and the most frustrating thing has not been audio sync problems but "jumpy" video. Strangely enough, when the video jumps I do not drop frames. Manual tracking on the VCR has helped a little bit with this problem, but it still haunts many of my oldest VHS tapes.