Anyone old enough to remember Marvel G200 ?

[Throb]

Long ago, my friend had a Marvel G200 and he used to captured some home video for me ... To cut a long story short: I tried to convert those huge MJPEG clips (I believe) to d2v/mpeg2 or whatever, they all seem to display squashed ie: horizontally OK but vertically only half the original size. I hope some old kind souls would tell me how to fix this. They were my kids's ultrasound and early home video, my wife kept nagging me to put them on DVD .

Thank

[Adis]

Hi

To properly decompress Matrox MJPEG video files
You need to install Morgan MJPEG or PICVideo MJPEG codec.

You have it intalled ?

[Frank Marshall]

Remember the G200 Marvel? Not everyone here is loaded or sees a need for the latest hardware and software. I'm still bumping along quite happily with that card in a Celeron 500 system under win98se. Don't laugh, it does the job, really!

The G200 Marvel's best capture resolution is D1 -- 704 x 576 (PAL) which I think is 704 x 480 for NTSC. If you're encodes are distorted, try working at these resolutions. D1 is a legal DVD resolution if that's what you're aiming for, so is half-D1 which the G200 Marvel does with ease (352x576 PAL / x480 NTSC). It can also do CIF (352x288 PAL / x240 NTSC) which is the native MPEG-1 resolution used for Video CDs.

To check the resolution of your video files, right-click on them and select "properties."

[edit: that "half-D1" resolution I mentioned above may in fact be properly termed "2/3-D1".]