The same can be said for most bundled software. Believe me, cheap and nasty cables are more trouble than they’re worth, so throw them away.
Windows 10 immediately recognised the dongle as an audio device, but to get it recognised as a video capture device, I replaced the crappy USB extension cable with a quality one of my own. I also chose Eas圜AP, for which I paid $10 and the pack included the USB dongle, a USB extension cable, a mini-CD with Honestech capture software and drivers, and what passed as an instruction manual. In fact, yesterday when I fired up the system after a few months of not having touched the PC, I was met with this irritating message:Īt that point, I realised that it was time to back up, nuke the PC, install Windows 10 and buy a compatible video capture device– which is exactly what I did thanks to Terry’s recommendation, albeit he was capturing live TV and not VHS. The trouble is that Windows XP can be very unstable, particularly with device drivers. I had previously been running with Windows XP, an Encore TV tuner card and capturing with Windows Movie Maker quite successfully, albeit in WMV format which needed to be converted to MP4 later on. Having read Terry Hollet’s article How To Use Eas圜AP TV Capture – Windows 10 the other day, I was prompted to resurrect my own VHS to digital setup to see if I could improve my rather lacklustre attempt.