can't capture at 704x576

[Fred H]

Rudma has Matrox Marvel G450 eTV, not Marvel G400

Sorry, I didn't know this part.
I think all other is right, about HD etc.
Sorry.
Fred H

[Rudma]

All,

Tested this weekend with a separate Hard disk but the result is the same. Next test will be a clean install of Windows with only the needed drivers but I am not sure which Windows version to use. XP, 2000. Any suggestions.

Rudi

[landrover]

Have you managed to capture full resolution on this system in the past? Real time MPEG2 compression in full res takes a LOT of CPU power. I think you´re a little short in processor power
You surely won´t need a separate video drive for it. Those are intended for uncompressed or lossless capturing. Every average modern hard drive can manage writing an MPEG2 stream.

[Rudma]

Landrover,

I tried to capture MPEG2 full resolution before but could not succeed. I started to test this again because I want to save my films to DVD now.
This weekend I tried capturing using other compression options (MPEG-4, divx 5.0, uncompressed) and this works fine !
Next step for me is to test my card in an other system. Will update when I have an update.

Rudi

[Rudma]

I have reinstalled windows and only the drivers needed. Also I have installed a separate HDD. Again capturing MPEG-2 gives the same result. No frames are dropped be the image is not smooth. When I play back the movie in an editor I see the following:
I watch the movie frame by frame and it looks like I am missing frames. Example (10 frames);
Frame 1, frame 2, frame 3, frame 3, frame 3, frame 6, frame 7, frame 7 frame 7, frame 7
etc.

Can't explaine this. Anyone ???

Rudi

[Debbie]

Rudi,

You can keep trying untill hell "freezes over" and perhaps some day you will have the result you expect.

My advice however is to capture in .avi (PicVideo) and then encode to MPEG-2 using the best encoder you can find, eg. TMPGEnc.

Debbie

[Rudma]

All,

I have tested my card in a new system and all is fine. Seems like my MB is the bottleneck.

Thanks for all the support!

Rudi