I boubt there is anything that can do this but I have to ask. Is there any device that anyone knows of that can take a composite signal from a VCR and convert it to svideo? or something that can improve the signal from the VCR. I've heard of a m-filter that Darim makes but it is expensive and I'm not sure what it does exactly

-- Al McCraw (amccraw@ix.netcom.com), January 28, 2000

Answers

Hey There,

Just to let you know, the M-Filter is for performind multiple pass encoding to MPEG by compressing the signal first before passing it on to a capture device. You can find a way to change the cables from composite to s-video, but you cannot convert to s-video from composite. The input signal only contains a certain amount color information (a major drawback of composite signals) and the rest of the data cannot be "magically" generated to s-video even though you may be able to pass the signal through a tv card or something similar. Hope that helps.

HazyMind

-- HazyMind (hazymind@hotmail.com), January 30, 2000.

Hi Al

If you have a DV camera it should do that on the fly. A Svhs vcr will also do the same thing. Otherwise its software or you may be able to get an electronic project that can do that in a little black box. A friend of mine does an svideo to RGB conversion using a electronics project.

-- Ross McL (rmclennan@esc.net.au), January 30, 2000.