Communication Styles Driver Analytical Expressive Amiable. Originally Posted by DSperber Alright you're probably not going to believe this since I am still having a hard time believing it, but contrary to what I'd thought was true it appears 100% possible to run CapDVHS 2003 (v0.3.0.6) on 64-Bit Win7 Pro in order to capture firewire feed from my JVC DT100U. I know, lots of discussion here has dealt with attempts at firewire recording from Motorola DVR's of various types and firmware versions, and which always insisted that it was only the 32-bit firewire drivers that existed to support firewire connection from the DVR. So I just assumed this would also be true of trying to make PC recordings from my older DVHS (copy-freely) recordings originally made years ago from offloads via firewire from Motorola DCT/DCH DVRs (which never had serious firewire problems as the DCX family did) to my DVHS VCR's. In other words I would have to use CapDVHS with my old 32-bit WinXP system, along with the very old 32-bit firewire drivers for DVHS machines acquired many years when CapDVHS was also downloaded. Well, today I received the 15-foot 4/6-pin firewire cable from Monoprice that I'd bought so that I could begin transferring my old 'So You Think You Can Dance' DVHS tapes to TS->MPG, expecting full well to be forced back to 32-bit WinXP to do that.

You can imagine my surprise when plugging in the new firewire cable and connecting my DT100U to my PC saw what appeared to be 64-bit Win7 Pro seemingly going to the MS Windows Update site to retrieve and install the appropriate drivers for the JVC DVHS VCR. This seemed to be going without a hitch, and sure enough when it was all done the only device that did not get a suitable driver was for the 'AV/C tuner' in the VCR: Seemed ok to me, since I only cared about CapDVHS being able to control the tape deck mechanism, not the tuner. And the drivers to support the rest of the DT100U appeared to get installed successfully!! Presumably these were all appropriate 64-bit drivers that just got installed. So would CapDVHS work in a 64-bit environment, with the 64-bit drivers for the DT100U DVHS tape deck components that had just gotten installed??? Would I actually be able to do this tape->TS transfer from DVHS under 64-bit Win7 Pro, and never actually have to look at WinXP again even for just this very special task???

I then manually pushed PLAY on the VCR to begin playback. And with playback now proceeding I pushed the REC button on CapDVHS (which had already surprised me enough even by just starting up and running seemingly without a complaint). Astonishingly, I saw the time counter moving along normally, exactly as if it were really doing its recording!!

After a few minutes I pushed STOP on CapDVHS, and looked in the CapDVHS folder with Explorer. Sure enough there lived a new TS file of several hundred megabytes, exactly as expected. I then OPEN'd it, and sure enough those few recorded moments from the DVHS tape now appeared on my PC!!! So sure enough, it would appear that the automatically downloaded MS-provided 64-bit drivers for firewire access to/from the DT100U seems to be 100% compatible with CapDVHS, all of which seems to work together perfectly on 64-bit Win7 Pro!!! To say that I am astonished would be an understatement.

I really could not be happier, as I now begin the project of transferring all of my copy-freely DVHS tapes to TS with CapDVHS under 64-bit Win7, and then edited TS->MPG with VideoReDo. Very very exciting.

Good news, if you are a DVHS VCR owner. I hadn't checked this thread for about a year, but this is an amazing find. I'm going to have to give it a try with my JVC DVHS deck, which I made many recordings with such as all the playoff games the last time the Seahawks made it to the Super Bowl.

Mar 11, 2016. CapDVHS is a software that uses firewire (similar to USB) to transfer files from a D-VHS player to a computer. D-VHS, or Digital Video Home System, is just a fancy word for DVR and similar technology. If your DVR has a firewire port, you can use CapDVHS to transfer your videos to your computer.

I would love to get that on disk rather than digital tape. Thanks for the tip! BTW, I still have one Comcast Motorola DCT3416 box left.

The box itself is getting glitchy (probably a struggling hard drive), but firewire capture to W7x86 continues to work fine. I have compiled the Microsoft DVHS Sample app from the DirectShow samples library under Visual Studio 2010 for Windows XP SP2 or newer as a 32 bit executable.

I have been interested in this app for some a long time and finally got around to installing Visual Studio, the Windows SDK, and DirectX SDK, and spent the time fighting with the build system over include paths and header inclusion order headaches and successfully built this application. I am planning on moving soon and have all my DVHS decks packed up and in storage, and therefore I dont have any DVHS decks hooked up to my workstation, so when I ran the app, it hit an assert statement since it couldnt find any devices using the MSTape driver.

Simple fix, but clearly MS didnt spend a lot of time testing this sample source code. The GUI is not all that polished, but I worked with the resource editor last night and re-arranged things a bit to make it work better.

It has been several years since I have worked with Visual Studio and 2010 is very different from the last version I used, which was 2003 I think. Anyhow, I would ask any folks with DVHS decks still attached to their PC's to try out this application and let me know how it works for them. It should allow you to select a DVHS deck from a list of those connected to the firewire network and use the transport controls to control playback. It should also render the MPEG2 transport stream (un-encrypyed) with only using Microsoft provided decoders to the GUI. Questions: 1.

Which deck are you using and do the transport control work? Is the transport stream rendered on the GUI. If you have multiple DVHS decks, does switching between them work? What you need are 2 things: 1. Un-encrypted recordings like HDNet titles or something recorded off broadcast or on cable which was not encrypted (ie copy freely).

Microsoft AVCTape driver installed and working. I may go pull one of my DVHS decks out of storage tonight after work.so I can test this out myself. I would like to add capture functionality to the app and was trying to build a DirectShow filter graph which would simultaneously render the stream to the GUI and also write the stream to disk. I tried inserting an infinite tee filer between the file source and demux, but it would not connect pins. Microsoft DVHS Sample Application (32 Bit Debug Build).

Quote:Originally Posted by 1992lee TN0821, I was hoping you would share with me the specifications of your Windows 8 capture station. Is it a 64 bit or 32 bit system?

What is the firewire chip set? Can you give me a link that contains the latest drivers and instructions? Thanks in advance for any advice that you can share. Lee The Windows 8 system is x86 (32-bit).

Nobody using Windows is performing FireWire captures from cable boxes using x64 (64-bit) Windows. And they won't be anytime in the foreseeable future. Note: People are capturing from DVHS tape decks on x64 Windows Vista 7 8 8.1 Server 2008 Server 2008 R2 Server 2012 Server 2012 R2, because unlike the cable box driver, which only exists as an x86 driver, the DVHS driver exists as both a x86 and x64 driver and gets auto-installed by Windows when you plug in your DVHS deck. My Windows 8 capture system is currently dead I was using a Sony laptop and had it precariously balanced and wound up knocking it down and breaking the FireWire connection. The system I'm running FireWire caps on currently is an old Pentium 4 3.2 GHz Northwood system, which doesn't support the NX bit, which means that Windows 8 refuses to install.

(The NX bit wasn't introduced until the Pentium 4 Prescott processor). So I'm currently running Windows 7 Home Premium x86 (32-bit) with SP1 on my FireWire capture system. It seems that that particular system will top out running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 At some point I'll probably resume using the Sony laptop for FireWire captures.I'll just need to pick up an ExpressCard FireWire card. When I was using Windows 8 for my FireWire captures, my system was Windows 8 x86. The FireWire has no driver other than what Windows 8 ships with. The FireWire details are: Chipset = Texas Instruments 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller Hardware IDs: PCI VEN_104C&DEV_803A&SUBSYS_9005104D&REV_00 Note: Unlike with Windows 7, you DO NOT switch around the default Windows 8 FireWire driver. With Windows 7 you are required to change to the 'legacy' FireWire driver, but this is not needed (and I think impossible) on Windows 8.

Windows 8's FireWire support spanks Windows 7 up and down. My install order on a fresh Windows 8 x86 (32-bit) is as follows: 1. Install Windows 8.1 x86 (32-bit).

If you want to try the free Windows 8.1 x86 (32-bit) Enterprise Edition 90-day evaluation, you can download it from Microsoft. This is a direct download link from Microsoft, so there's no having to create a Microsoft account or anything. Just download the.ISO file and burn it to DVD. The Windows 8.1 eval is pre-activated and is good for 90-days.

[rant] Fact: Anybody that prefers Windows 7 to Windows 8 is delusional. A couple of pinned Taskbar shortcuts and BAM! Windows 7 on super steroids with FireWire support that shames its predecessor. File copies are way faster than Windows 7 and can be paused, Task Manager is amazingly better, and I just plain ignore the Windows Store.I never open those sad one dimensional iPhone wanna-be apps. I mean, I would for sure use them on a tablet (a sad one dimensional PC wannabe), but I'm not subjecting myself to that on a real machine.[/rant] 2.

Before plugging in the cable box FireWire, install the cable box driver. You can use my, which was updated for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. You may need to use a download manager, as I now see that Google Chrome is flagging it as potential malware. No doubt that's because I'm now including MPEG2Repair, which uses an EXE packager for compression code obfuscation and that same EXE packer has been used by malware in the distant past (BTW, nice sh*tty malware detection algorithm Google, I thought you clowns only hired smart people; fix it, and while you're at it fix your awful FireWire bugs on your Motorola DCX cable boxes. UPDATE: They fixed it. My v4 cable box driver install package is no longer being flagged by Google Chrome as potential malware. No idea if they fixed the DCX cable box FireWire issues, but it's possible.

Connect your cable box FireWire to your PC and run CapDVHS (which is included in my v4 cable box driver install package) That's it. Everything should work great. And if you need a good easy to use HD editor for removing advertisements, I recommend grabbing a copy of VideoReDo TVSuite.

It's crazy easy to use. Originally Posted by tluxon I hadn't checked this thread for about a year, but this is an amazing find. I'm going to have to give it a try with my JVC DVHS deck, which I made many recordings with such as all the playoff games the last time the Seahawks made it to the Super Bowl. I would love to get that on disk rather than digital tape. Thanks for the tip! BTW, I still have one Comcast Motorola DCT3416 box left. The box itself is getting glitchy (probably a struggling hard drive), but firewire capture to W7x86 continues to work fine.

The DCT3416 is a good unit. I would if I were you.

As for the Windows 7 and 8 support for JVC DVHS decks, yes. Both the x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) releases of those operating systems come with or can automatically download drivers for them.

However, they can not do that for cable boxes. For FireWire capturing from a cable box, you must use the x86 (32-bit) edition of Windows and install the cable box drivers.

Originally Posted by qz3fwd I have compiled the Microsoft DVHS Sample app from the DirectShow samples library under Visual Studio 2010 for Windows XP SP2 or newer as a 32 bit executable.... Anyhow, I would ask any folks with DVHS decks still attached to their PC's to try out this application and let me know how it works for them. It should allow you to select a DVHS deck from a list of those connected to the firewire network and use the transport controls to control playback. It should also render the MPEG2 transport stream (un-encrypyed) with only using Microsoft provided decoders to the GUI. Questions: 1.

Which deck are you using and do the transport control work? Is the transport stream rendered on the GUI. If you have multiple DVHS decks, does switching between them work? I have tried it with a JVC HM-DH30000U but I can't get the transport controls to do anything. They remain grayed-out.

It does see the device. It shows up as 'Microsoft AV/C Tape Subunit Device'. I can click on that and then click the 'Select Device' button, but nothing happens. The VTR Controls area remains grayed-out and nothing shows up under the Programs or Streams areas. Also: Typically the 'Microsoft AV/C Tape Subunit Device' entry vanishes after maybe 30 seconds or so, forcing me to close the app and relaunch in order to see it listed again. I am able to use CapDVHS and capture from this JVC HM-DH30000U.

My system is running Windows 7 Home Premium x86 with SP1. I may try to restore an old XP image to this system and upgrade it to SP2 or SP3 and see if I get better results. Dear All, My old DCT-6416 died today and Comcast replaced it with the DCX-3500. I manged to get the inf file from here and got Win7 to see the STB. I can use the Hauppauge Colossus to see the tv, but I can not for the life of me change channels via firewire. I tried the firestb channel arguments to no avail. It seems that the DCX-3500 can recognize some of the signal for the channel change, but it seems to be all gabbled up.

Anyone have luck changing channels? Or any good tips? I am about to trash this thing and ask comcast for an older box. This is about the only place on AVS(and the internet) where there is any active discussion at all about DVHS. This thread was quite valuable to me a few years back, I was able to use the CapDVHS utility to capture stuff off my Comcast DCT3416 DVR and things that I taped to my Mits 1100 DVHS VCR. Anyways, I'm getting rid of a lot of things due to a move, and would love to pass along my Mits 1100 unit to anyone who could benefit from using it.

It still works great and looks new(minus one scratch on top that is only cosmetic). I have the original remote and documentation, as well as a few DVHS tapes too. PM me if you are interested or want any more details. I have looked all other the internet for info regarding this and this site looks to be the most active and up to date. So my question if someone would be so kind in answering.

I currently use the firewire from my dvr that is a motorola box with built in carblecard to laptop win 7 using capdvhs and STB drivers. Everything works great on some channels. Others will record but the file is not playable.

Those are the channels with cci 0x02. My question is what is the difference with cci0x02 and drm 0x01?

Some of my channels like TBS are cci 0x02 drm 0x00 and others like HBO are cci0x02 drm 0x01. Then Fox is cci0x00 drm 0x00. So is there anyway to record TBS and/or HBO in my situation, without using video out cables?

Would the HDhomerun prime work even with the flags the way that they are on my dvr? All these channels I am subscribed to. Originally Posted by jr5689 I have looked all other the internet for info regarding this and this site looks to be the most active and up to date. So my question if someone would be so kind in answering. I currently use the firewire from my dvr that is a motorola box with built in carblecard to laptop win 7 using capdvhs and STB drivers.

Everything works great on some channels. Others will record but the file is not playable.

Those are the channels with cci 0x02. My question is what is the difference with cci0x02 and drm 0x01? Some of my channels like TBS are cci 0x02 drm 0x00 and others like HBO are cci0x02 drm 0x01. Then Fox is cci0x00 drm 0x00. So is there anyway to record TBS and/or HBO in my situation, without using video out cables? Would the HDhomerun prime work even with the flags the way that they are on my dvr? All these channels I am subscribed to.

HDHRPrime would let you record them on a PC, but you wouldn't be able to edit the file or play it back on another system. Using the analog outputs is your only way around those copy protected channels. Or buy the shows on Blu-Ray when they are released on that media. Originally Posted by JDLIVE HDHRPrime would let you record them on a PC, but you wouldn't be able to edit the file or play it back on another system.

Using the analog outputs is your only way around those copy protected channels. Or buy the shows on Blu-Ray when they are released on that media. OK now this is weird. I was able to record all Starz channels except Starz1. I can record Showtime west and all other Showtimes like Shocase but not Showtime (east) HBO and TBS still do not work. I actually have no need to record shows on these channels but i am very interested in seeing why this works the way it has been. So it seems there is something to cci 0x02 with drm 0x00 (Showtime) and cci0x00 with drm0x01(Showtime west).

As apposed to cci 0x02 with drm 0x01(HBO). Thanks for the reply. Originally Posted by JDLIVE HDHRPrime would let you record them on a PC, but you wouldn't be able to edit the file or play it back on another system. Using the analog outputs is your only way around those copy protected channels. Or buy the shows on Blu-Ray when they are released on that media. It is also possible to capture video over HDMI using a device like the Hauppauge HDPVR2. This requires getting around HDCP, but that is pretty trivial.

Not as ideal as capturing copy freely content directly as the video must be re-encoded and there is more of a time investment, but the quality is great. Of course I would rather buy a Blu-ray for movies and TV series, but it's handy to have options for archiving one time events and other broadcasts. Originally Posted by jr5689 My question is what is the difference with cci0x02 and drm 0x01? CCI 0x02 is copy once, and that one copy is the one you made to the DVR or DVHS deck. Making further copies is forbidden for that content, so you'd have to use component cables to transfer it to another device. Supposedly there is such a thing as hacked TiVo firmware that will ignore copy protection flags and allow you to copy anything as much as you want, but even if you were able to find such firmware, you probably wouldn't be allowed to post about it here. Originally Posted by jr5689 OK now this is weird.

I was able to record all Starz channels except Starz1. I can record Showtime west and all other Showtimes like Shocase but not Showtime (east) HBO and TBS still do not work. I actually have no need to record shows on these channels but i am very interested in seeing why this works the way it has been. So it seems there is something to cci 0x02 with drm 0x00 (Showtime) and cci0x00 with drm0x01(Showtime west).

As apposed to cci 0x02 with drm 0x01(HBO). Thanks for the reply. Odd that the flags would be so varied on those premium channels, who is the provider? After reading about DSperber's success with Win7 64 bit, I purchased a used JVC DT100U and fired it up. It plays back my old off air HiDef recodings of several years ago very well (using the HDMI output).

Next, I connected it to my PC (Asus Z87 Pro mobo with a Tango Firewire800 PCI express card) As reported by DSperber, I got the new hardware found message, and drivers were installed for the DT100U (but not the tuner section) - so far so good. Now I d/loaded CapDVHS 3.0.6.0 and launched it. I hit the play button on the DT100U, then hit the record button on the CapDVHS dialog box to record 1 minute of video. The only odd thing I noticed at this juncture was: the default folder in the CapDVHS dialog box was listed as C: followed by the Japanese symbol for Yen, instead of the usual C:. Having hit the Play button on the DT100U, shortly after I clicked on the the Record button in CapDVHS. Encouragingly, the record counter in CapDVHS started running and the recording stopped after the one minute record time I had designated. But, when I launched Windows Explorer, there was no sign of a new file in the C: directory.

Then, using CapDVHS, in the remux tab in the input file name, I noticed a file C: 59.mpg (except that the was replaced by the Yen signal) I then left clicked on 'File' to the right of C: 59.mpg (as usual the appeared as a Yen symbol), and Windows Explorer opened to give me a choice of input files to specify. In this launch of Windows Explorer from within the CapDVHS app, I was able to find the file that had just been recorded in the C: directory, and a right click->properties->details sequence on this file indicated a file of the correct size of around 148 Megabytes, as expected for a one minute recording at around 18Mbits/sec. Phillies Cursive Font Alphabet here.

The other properties details indicated an video data rate of 18.158 Mbps (as expected) and a 1920 by 1080 video (also as expected). I then right clicked on this file again and given the option of opening it, I attempted to open it with various video decoders such as VLC, but with no good result. This file never appears when I launch Windows explorer, only when I browse the Windows Explorer that is launched from within the CapDVHS app in the remux tab. BTW, I have tried both a legacy firewire driver, and the one installed by windows 7 64 bit driver update during the new hardware found process. As another test, I tried capturing using HD split, but the resulting recording, although playable, lasts only a few seconds no matter how long I record for. Any help would be appreciated.

I just looked at my own setup. And yes, my target location also shows what looks to be a 'yen' sign. But in reality that's not truly part of the target location. In my case, I had changed both the target drive to F, and also created a folder named CAPDVHS, but left everything else the same as the defaults, in terms of what is created by CapDVHS from the capture. You can always rename things after the fact. And besides, you're likely going to be editing your capture with VideoReDo or similar, so what does it matter what the original capture file is.

Most importantly, the capture file is a TS, and the file name will be a date/time. Years ago I tried to create my own file names, but for some reason the captures never occurred. I finally decided just to leave the setup parameters exactly as they were by default, with the exception of the F: CAPDVHS target folder. My CapDVHS settings look as follows: And here's what's there right now, from the last time I did a capture. Notice it's almost 5 hours long (an old SYTYCD excerpt tape).

Note that I have PotPlayer set as my 'default program' for virtually all video formats. That's why you see its icon next to the TS capture file in Explorer above. As far as player programs, my current universal player is. I use it for everything video (as it plays everything video, as well as everything audio even), and no longer use Windows Media Player or VLC (which I really never used anyway) for video files. PotPlayer has no problem playing TS files, or edited MPG or AVI.

PotPlayer can even play high bitrate 4:2:2 files, like this one I got from another AVS forum member of the 2011 VS Fashion Show, CBS feed: And of course I use VideoRedo TV Suite v4 as my editor. Thank you for the explanation regarding backslash & Yen.

I tried a more extensive capture today and it worked well. For anyone else attempting to capture from the JVC DT100U DVHS recorder/player, here are details of my setup: PC: Asus Z87-Pro Motherboard, with Tango USB3.0/Firewire 800 Combo PCI Express Card. Firewire800 to Firewire400 adapter. OS: Windows 7 64 bit. (I have accumulated many apps and programs on this machine over the years, so, a long way from a clean install) 1394 Driver: LSI 1394 OHCI compliant Host Controller (Note: I'm not using the legacy 1394 controller) Capture App: CapDVHS, ver 3.0.6. When I first installed this, for some reason it defaulted to.mpeg file extensions in the 'settings' tab.

This did not work for me, but I changed the file extensions to.ts and bingo! Thanks to all, and esp. Dsperber for their help. Originally Posted by jr5689 I have found that TSreader seems to work better than CapDVHS When I last dabbled with TSReader, the 'free' Lite version required a 32-bit Windows environment, like WinXP.

I don't think my experiments running it under 64-bit Win7 were successful. Furthermore, using it for 'record' required the FULL (non-free) version for true unrestricted recording ability, which I think was $100. The 'lite' (free) version was limited to a 1-minute recording limit. Bottom line: not usable for my Win7 x64 environment. And (free) CapDVHS works just fine with the MS-provided 64-bit drivers for JVC DVHS DT100U tape transport drivers.