I find it far better to use the 32 bit software that comes with the old name brand pci capture cards. Mpeg-2 has replaced those obsolete Indeo codecs. A JVC svhs with a tbc may not be what you want. Old stretched tapes that have bending at the top when viewed on a high end tv may not be corrected with the vcr built-in tbc turned on. The right capture card actually work better with those old tape. The consumer svhs machines have what they call a 3 line tbc which is not a full tbc.

You may want to purchase those old tbc cheap now. Unfortunately they don’t make 64 bit drivers for those old cards and devices that I know of. My xp machine gave out 3 years ago.

I am going to try my HV30 for capture. I have used it in the past, many years ago. There are some mentions on the internet that using a DV camera for pass-thru may work as a TBC.

Currently for TBC, the only affordable new ones are the CTB-100, which some claim have a defective chip. I bought one, it helped a little on a particularly bad tape, but the frame-drops were horrific. I wonder if I had tried to capture to a different drive I would have had fewer drops. I may try that again. DV is not the best codec either.

If I were to use MPEG2 I would bump up the bitrate to 11-15,000 but then all MPEG2 codecs are not equal, and maybe the CL version is a little lacking. Lagareth gives me a big file but few artifacts.

I fear buying any VCR on the web due to age and any with TBC are quite expensive and I wonder how much life is left in them. A rebuilt top-shelf JVC with TBC can run many hundreds of dollars, and a used external TBC-1000 can run $500.

Anyone got a decent VCR they're not using anymore? HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
Nvidia GTX 960(4GB)/16GB DDR3/
Canon Vixia HV30/HF-M40/HF-M41/HF-G20/Olympus E-PL5.
Tape capture using 6 VCR, TBC-1000, Elite BVP4+, Sony D8 camcorder with TBC.
https://www.facebook.com/BarryAFTT

The expected resolution of vhs is 240 horizontal lines resolution because of the 3 Mhz bandwith. It is 4.2 Mhz for ntsc broadcast and 5 Mhz for Svhs. DV of 720 horizontal pixels beats them all and each frame is independently compressed at about a 5 to 1 ratio. 1hour of DV is 13 GB of data.

You should definitely try your HV30 for capture as you have suggested.

Quote I have successfully captured analog signals using MagicYUV, Microsoft Video1, Indeo 3.2, Indeo 5.1, Alparysoft (watermark), and MJPEG (watermark).

EDIT: I can also capture to Divx profiles. Keep in mind DivX and Mpeg2 are 720x480. AVI and DV are 640x480.

The Intel Indeo 5 codec is not watermarked if you can find it. That is before it was sold to Ligos. It was supplied free on older versions of windows, hardware, and software.