Trying to turn old VHS (PAL) tapes into NTSC DVDs. My question isn't about authoring, though, but capturing.
As I live in the States and everything's NTSC, including the VCR, I had to purchase a second-hand multi-format VCR, one that's built by Samsung (model SV-S97). I have it hooked up to my Radeon 9000 VIVO card via composite cable.
The VCR automatically detects the format of the tape. When I play one of the tapes, it says PAL AUTO on the display. I have ATI's VideoIN set for Composite and PAL-B, currently.
The problem is that the video preview (and capture!) looks extremely flickery. You can tell that the colours are displayed OK and all that, and for a second or so it plays fine and then it's a flickering mess that looks like the video feed is constantly getting overexposed or something.
I captured a short clip to demonstrate, it is located at
http://www.jella.net/bin/flicker.wmv
I am thinking this might be an issue with ATI's capture drivers. I have updated them but am not sure if it "took".
I have also tried all the signal format options VideoIN has, such as PAL-B, PAL-D, PAL-M, etc. Nothing helps.
I'd welcome any ideas.