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G400 vs VHS
Hi everyone!!!
I am still struggling with my g400 cards and its features.
I bought this card to achieve a simple (?) goal... bring my vhs to a stabler support, i.e. cd-rom or dvd.
Unfortunately it's not so easy. Just took two and a half year to admit it
My system is the following:
Athlon 1.33Ghz
384 MB ddr ram (ok, ran out of money on the way to 512 Mb LOL)
Hd 20GB
G400 TV
Mobo is Asus A7V266-E
OS is Win98 SE
Ok, the point is: I have some old tapes that I want to convert.
I still cannot make dvds, but I want to prepare mpeg2 files on a normal cd-rom so that I can easily put them on dvd afterwards.
Mpeg2 is perfect for me, because almost all players play is fine (no codec problems and so on) and, above all , because my standalone dvd player can play them from cd-rom already, so I am happy with that.
Ok, so here come the questions and considerations:
First of all: Mjpeg or Yuy2?
I don't have much experience, but I never liked mjpeg that much, I think you lose too much quality during capturing.
Now I am using AVI_O with yuy2 + Huffyuv at 352x576 at 25fps (I am in a PAL area), without any frame drops.
And the result looks really good, but I am not sure this is the best way I can do it. I get huges files and it's very difficult to manage them.
Can I get the same (or higher!) quality in any other way?
However, after that I convert everything to MPEG2 using Tmpgenc.
I get a .MPG file of about 680MB for 22 minutes of video.
I am recording short episodes of about 20 minutes each. I usally capture 10 minutes each time and then I put them together (to save disc space)
I need about 80 minutes for the compression only. I know this sort of things take a lot of time... but still...
Quality is a big issue, but the source is not digital. I may just try and tamper with it, but it will never look like a dvd no matter what I do.
My point is: I cannot shield the tapes from "aging"; each time I watch them they are less bright. I want to use a digital disk for storage, even if the source is not.
I would like to have a mpg good enough that it can compete with a 5-year-old tape.
Am I doing it right? Completely off? Could be better?
Any suggestions???
Thanks in advance!
Erika
I am still struggling with my g400 cards and its features.
I bought this card to achieve a simple (?) goal... bring my vhs to a stabler support, i.e. cd-rom or dvd.
Unfortunately it's not so easy. Just took two and a half year to admit it
My system is the following:
Athlon 1.33Ghz
384 MB ddr ram (ok, ran out of money on the way to 512 Mb LOL)
Hd 20GB
G400 TV
Mobo is Asus A7V266-E
OS is Win98 SE
Ok, the point is: I have some old tapes that I want to convert.
I still cannot make dvds, but I want to prepare mpeg2 files on a normal cd-rom so that I can easily put them on dvd afterwards.
Mpeg2 is perfect for me, because almost all players play is fine (no codec problems and so on) and, above all , because my standalone dvd player can play them from cd-rom already, so I am happy with that.
Ok, so here come the questions and considerations:
First of all: Mjpeg or Yuy2?
I don't have much experience, but I never liked mjpeg that much, I think you lose too much quality during capturing.
Now I am using AVI_O with yuy2 + Huffyuv at 352x576 at 25fps (I am in a PAL area), without any frame drops.
And the result looks really good, but I am not sure this is the best way I can do it. I get huges files and it's very difficult to manage them.
Can I get the same (or higher!) quality in any other way?
However, after that I convert everything to MPEG2 using Tmpgenc.
I get a .MPG file of about 680MB for 22 minutes of video.
I am recording short episodes of about 20 minutes each. I usally capture 10 minutes each time and then I put them together (to save disc space)
I need about 80 minutes for the compression only. I know this sort of things take a lot of time... but still...
Quality is a big issue, but the source is not digital. I may just try and tamper with it, but it will never look like a dvd no matter what I do.
My point is: I cannot shield the tapes from "aging"; each time I watch them they are less bright. I want to use a digital disk for storage, even if the source is not.
I would like to have a mpg good enough that it can compete with a 5-year-old tape.
Am I doing it right? Completely off? Could be better?
Any suggestions???
Thanks in advance!
Erika