Finally, I am able to capture old VHS tape videos into the old HP media PC. The EASYCAP was a waste of time. No matter what I tried, the video either wouldn’t show or the quality is very poor. I even purchased the Corel Video Studio Pro X3 hoping that it would help and it didn’t. The new HP I bought with the 25″ monitor already has a dead hard drive in a year and after a new hard drive with the easycap, it still cannot record the video from the VHS player.
It finally dawned on me that the old HP media PC is just sitting there and it has the TV tuner composite video input. All I need to do is to plug straight to the back of the pc and no intermediate capture device needed. I first tried to download the AVS Video recorder software to record, the video won’t show in the recording even though I can see it on the screen. So I installed the Corel Video Studio and voila! It worked!!! And the video quality is decent, better than any of the old ones I did. I am very happy. It has been a long time since I have a setup to record the old tapes between trips and dead hard drives. Now I’m ready again. Yea!!!