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This works for transferring to Mac OSX. Easy setup process

Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2024

I gave this a shot because I didn't want to spend the huge sum of money to get a company to do it. I was hesitant at first, however after setting it up and using it, I have to say it is a quality product that has a very easy and straightforward setup process. Connect the audio/video cables to your VHS player then to the video capture device, then into your Mac. Open Quicktime on your Mac and select new recording. Start playing VHS and also hit the record button on Quicktime. You will see the VHS playing on your computer in the Quicktime app. You can stop at any time and simply hit save and name the file whatever you want. Literally 5 step setup process on Mac OSX. The quality is the exact same quality as the original VHS tape which for me, was not an issue as I will hardly ever watch any of them again.

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This doesn't work reliably or well.

Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2023

Don't buy this. It works terrible. I installed it on my Dell laptop and it worked for the first two or three tapes. Then the audio became unusable due to some kind of noise suppression, popping and intermittent audio. So I installed it on my old laptop (also a Dell) and the preview video function would stop working after the first or second recording. It would still record but I couldn't see the video source. It had switched to my laptop camera. Then I tried loading it on my tower computer and it wouldn't work at all. When it was running it would not allow you to name or delete files from within the program. You can make adjustments to the video but not while it is in the record mode. If you accidentally choose "OSB Camera" as the video source, (I don't have one) it will lock the software at startup. That setting is retained even after uninstall. I found that when I uninstalled the software it left about 20 entries in the registry. I returned it after two days of frustration and only about an hour of actual recording. Further online research showed this is common problems for other users as well. I could never get the included OSB Studio software to work either.

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This works for transferring to Mac OSX. Easy setup process

Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2024

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Christina Krieger

Easy to use and just works

Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2024

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Shipped quick, had all the cables needed to connect to my laptop. Had a CD for the software but few pc have cd players so I downloaded software.

Selected usb for video played the vcr tape and started recording. Saved as an MP4 -

Only negative was the sound quality was only about 80-90% of the vcr normally. Still good enough for 5 stars for the price - Great investment to capture old memories.

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DaveI

EASY CAP UVC-158 Capture Device (Linux Ready)

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2019

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Most modern builds of LINUX will already have the drivers installed for this device. It was immediately recognized in Ubuntu 18.04LTS. I purchased it to replace my Happauge HVR-950 which I had been using under Debian 14.x and 16.x but would no longer work correctly when I switched to Ubuntu. I purchased this to WATCH tv in a window while on the Linux system (No tuner in this device...Will accept any video output via RCA (audio and video) and also SVGA). I have it displaying the output of my DISH Satellite receiver so tuning is done at the Sat receiver. The included applications are for Windows only. But the OBS studio does come in a 64bit version for Linux. I did test that but capture with the Linux driver was not very good (choppy)...However I was able to find two applications that work fairly well to watch TV (SMPlayer and KMPlayer) but I had to do a lot of tweaking to get rid of the choppiness and lag. (Again it's the linux driver). I did also test it under Windows 10 and it works fine for capture under Windows 10 (Native Win10 Driver support). I downloaded and tested OBS Studio in Windows 10 and it worked pretty good (Downloaded OBS because the version was newer than what was on the included CD). There is also another program included on the CD for capturing and burning to DVD but it was fairly old (Something like 2011) and very simplistic and limited. OBS Studio which is free has much more capability. I paid $30 for this as I wanted to get it faster. Could have gotten it cheaper ordering from China but really only spent about another $10 to get it quick and it comes with a 6ft. RCA Audio/Video cable so not bad. Watching TV in Linux has always been difficult to find a decent working device. This one works pretty decent with the two applications (SMPlayer and KMPlayer) once you sort out all the different drivers settings and application settings. For capture with this device I found you'll have to stick with Windows for decent performance. Just ordered a 25ft. RCA cable (Audio/Video) so I can route the cable permanently out of sight along base board/under carpet. Not bad for $30 and can be had cheaper if you're willing to wait.

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This doesn't work reliably or well.

Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2023

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Tony Elias

Good quality picture!

Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2024

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The UCEC USB 2.0 Video Capture Card Device is a game-changer for anyone looking to digitize their old VHS tapes or other analog video sources. The device was easy to set up and worked seamlessly with my Mac OS X and Windows PC. The quality of the video conversion exceeded my expectations, maintaining the original essence of the footage while enhancing its clarity for digital viewing. Additionally, the device's compact size made it convenient for use without cluttering my workspace. I appreciate how it has allowed me to preserve precious memories stored in outdated formats. Overall, this is a top-notch product that delivers on its promise. Five stars from me!

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Ross B.

When It Works, It Works Well

Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2021

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Here’s my thing about this product and I hope those of you looking over the reviews find this to be useful - I was just like you. I looked over the reviews, the good and the bad, and I talked myself initially out of buying. Mainly because everyone was having issues with the scan lines. I sat on the thought for a week and gave it a try anyway. Does it work perfectly? No. But does it work at all? Yes. Here’s what happens. Running it through a 2019 iMac Pro all updated to the latest 2021 update, whatever that is, as of this review.

Yes, sometimes I receive scan lines. Some tapes, I didn’t receive any at all. I put over 10 hours of footage through this device. About 10% of the time, I caught it producing scan lines as mentioned in the reviews. Sometimes it would do it for 10 minutes and just “pop” out of the scan lines back to color. Annoying? Sure. But not enough that it ruins all of the memories. I would wiggle around the cables and nothing would really change. So it’s definitely a device problem.

Other times, I would hit play and the audio would play just fine but the video would blink in and out until I either rewound or fast forward and then hit play; all of a sudden now everything is playing fine in color and with no issues.

So my conclusion is that yes, the product works, and it worked “enough” for me to do what I needed it to do. The bits with the scan lines for me are brief, and able to be ignored because the content of the footage is what is most important. I am a video editor so for anytime the scan lines appeared, the color disappeared. So my work around was to bring it into a video editing software and simply cut the footage where the scan lines begin, and turn it black and white. Scan lines gone. Color gone but memories still there. I can live with that.

I didn’t bother to call customer service. From the reviews, they don’t do much of a good job helping and the workarounds they seem to offer don’t help either. I took a chance. Thrilled? No. Satisfied? Just enough.

Overall, it’s a 3 out of 5 for me as far as the product goes as a whole. It does not work as intended, 100% of the time. And to those who are not video editors like me, this can be hard to remedy or live with, and I get that.

4 out of 5 for quality when it does work. The clips that did capture color, captured it wonderfully.

Just not a perfect product.

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Phillip M Baker

Easy as pie!!

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2024

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I plugged in my old VHS and boom, I saw the videos on my computer. Amazing gadget.

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Best so far

Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2024

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I'm giving this another go. I got this before and it worked for about a month, then all of a sudden I couldn't get any audio coming out of it. I have purchased to other kinds of video capture devices, including that $87 one that everyone seems to love, that was the worst one so far.
Back to the point, this one has the best video quality you can get. The other two devices will not get you 59.94 fps and a nice picture. The audio tends to depend on the VCR itself.
Hopefully I can get a new one and the audio will be fine. I don't know why the first one stopped working, but I got audio out of the $87 one and it was super gurgly. The other one I got, no audio at all. IDK if it's me, or my laptop, or the device themselves, but I'm sick of spending hours trying to get these things to work!

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R. Koehler

Erratic performance at a great price

Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2023

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I’m amazed that it can do for $30 what I paid thousands of dollars for twenty years ago. That said, it has been inconsistent.

I have been digitizing VHS tapes and some DVD media. On a few occasions I noticed the color was as if it were overexposed, but this was only twice out of about 40 rips. Re-ripping the same tape after a power cycle it came out better. Another two times the video has stutter. Same solution, do it over.

About 35 out of 40 rips have a video/audio sync issue. Some glitch will occur that causes a 5-15 frame lag in the video, which I have to fix manually in my video editing app. If the rip were 30 minutes or shorter it might never happen, but since mine are 2-4 hours long they almost always happen and sometimes multiple times.

Anyway what I saved in product cost I’m losing in manual effort since it takes me about an hour of effort on each rip. Fortunately I only have ten more tapes so I can just fight through it.

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Good product

Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2024

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Allowed me to transfer my video tapes

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