Capture to ASF with Marvel G200?

[Prefect]

Is it possible to capture direct to ASF with the Marvel G200? If so, what proigrams can you use?

I have a fast enough CPU to do the coding (I think) and my HD can't handle RGB capturing in the higher resolutions / frame rates that well, so direct capture to .asf would be great.

[Aryko]

It's possible, but it would demand a lot of processor power. However, I don't think you'd get all that great results, primarily because a field-based video stream will show the two fields split in scenes of motion.

I had the best results in a long, arduous process:

1 - capture with avi_io
2 - import into media studio pro, de-interlace fields, produce a new avi (you could also change the frame size to what you want in asf here - it's gonna take an overnighter anyway) in frame-based mode
3 - convert from avi to asf with windows media encoder

You're looking at two nights of rendering there, one for step 2, and one for step 3. Plus of course the initial time it takes to capture. But the results are much, much better than just going from 1 to 3.

- Aryko

[Prefect]

Well... that's just the problem. I can't capture raw RGB uncompressed data with my little slow HD... and MJPEG in combination with ASF-encoding gives really crappy results.

Couldn't we intercept the MJPEG hardware? It obviously does the de-interlacing by itself, so we could just grab that data before it's compressed...