The ultimate way to capture video :-)

[borrelnootje]

Hi,

After reading a lot of postings on the forum, I want to start one more thread about the best possible way to capture video.

What I want to do: I want to convert a television,vhs or camcorder source as efficienty as possible to DIVX format (sounds familiar? :-) This means that the source material contains noise and errors.

My system: celeron333 and marvelg400tv and average HD

My first idea was to capture with YUY2 and HUFFYUF compression in a low resolution (approx. 352x288 (out of my head))... and use virtualdub with the excellent temporal filter to convert this to a 100kb/s + WMA audio file.. this gave me average results, and looked not so good when displayed full-screen...

To my surprise a MJPEG encoded 704x572? file, with no filters and compressed to a 100kb/s DIVX file looked better full-screen than the smaller res. version. I cannot capture 704x572 with YUY2 on my system.

My questions:
what are the best resolutions/filters/compressors to achieve approx. 2+ hours of full screen playback on one CD-rom.
What does the YUY enabler do (seen on this forum), when I am able to capture YUY2.

Any comments are apreciated!

greetings,
Borrelnootje

[bastioned]

Hi borrelnootje, come and join this crazy video obsessed group we form!!

Well, the reason why your video file obtained from MJpeg looks better is that you´re feeding it with a full frame siza ( 704x576 ) , at least that´s what Iunderstand from your post. Anyway, you´ll get better results to capture MJPEG full PAL max quality and then encode to DivX reducing frame size 2:1 that capturing directly at half res and then transcoding to DivX
Try to increase that 100KBs threshold to 120kb ( 920kbit ). You wont increase your file a lot but your eyes will definately like it!

I have a special profile for this purpose :
Transcode a 704x576 MJPEG video to 704x576 DivX format, 125 KBs, Smart PAL Deinterlace, Color Compensation.
You can directly add the 2:1 reduction filter to obtain a 352x288 video file with a good quality too!
Just ask me and I´ll send ya!

[This message has been edited by bastioned (edited 01 September 2000).]