Capturing

[zver]

I would like to know how you guys doing capturing from satellite or cable if you got a s-video input on your video card..
I was doing with a virtual dub-regular capturing with huuiv(or whatever is called)and pcm audio and after converting to divx or mpeg2-depends on material and purpose for it
I would just like to know how other people doing it,and if they tried my method,to compare is it better or worst,also if he got some spare time,he can put his method down here,so i can try it too...
Doesent matter if involve a commercial or free software,either gonna be ok
Thanks in advance..
Im just thinking it must be some way better then my with some new software,maybe even to capture straight to divx,xvid if my pc is fast enough;Specs-p4,2.53ghz,512 ram,7200 rpm hd

 

[ChickenMan]

Yep, I have done the same as you have done, but of late I tend to use Ulead Video Studio 7 and capture directly to AVI (Xvid) or MPEG-2 as required.

 

[Duracell]

still doing it the old style:
analog cable TV or S-Video > Terratec TV Value PCI (no hardware encoder) > capturing in VirualDub by Huffyuv > encoding in VirualDub by DivX;

Greetings from
Duracell

 

[zver]

@cm

Considering my hardware,do you think its fast enoughf,so i can do the same??
Couse it would be much faster,also is it a same quality as before???

 

[celtic_druid]

Much better quality capturing to huffyuv or other lossless format. That way you can do some denoising and then do a two pass encode.

If your card supports YV12 you could try capturing using a lossless YV12 codec rather than YUY2. Should save you some space (12bit vs. 16) and it is going to have to be converted to YV12 some time anyway.

 

[zver]

Much better quality capturing to huffyuv or other lossless format. That way you can do some denoising and then do a two pass encode.

If your card supports YV12 you could try capturing using a lossless YV12 codec rather than YUY2. Should save you some space (12bit vs. 16) and it is going to have to be converted to YV12 some time anyway.

Thank you,will do as you said and will post a conclussion

 

[zver]

Well i seem to have a problem..Before i didnt care about those black bars which stands down and above when capturing with video input,but its really ugly.How i can do that..Checked search and nothing came.
Went to divx site and there is a small tut with virtual dub but it doesent work??
I guess i have to crop and resize the picture again to be full screen again??is that right??
Anyway,if somebody know some tutorial which explains this it would be really nice
Also if i need some addioonal software which can do a good job and its a simple...

 

[Duracell]

i did my first tries by following the virtual dub guide at divx.com; but like you did before, i don't care the size format and never tried croping and resizing, although i saw these options in divx configurations menu;

 

[zver]

Thank you bud..Now i got some more..
I know im bublling to much but i really dont have nobody around to ask and im really really bad about video stuff.
Anyway,im capturing with a msi-nvidia gf4 mx440 thry svideo-just a regular graphic card and is it better to capture on a regular 7200 hd-ide or on a another one which is also 7200 but is connected over usb2.0 and is configured as a external drive???Couse i do get a dropped frames a bit??Drive is configured ok,works ok,dma enabled?Try to capture on 720-dropping frames,tryed yesterdau on 640-480 still dropping,around 50/hour.Im recording thry huuv and pcm-48khz 16b stereo.How many frames you got dropped guys per hour??Any info is welcome

 

[Duracell]

better to use the internal HDD;
i don't get dropped frames not even a single one while capturing in VirualDub by Huffyuv to 640x480; my HDDs are a RAID0 stripe set at an onboard SIL3112 controller;