Hello,
NooB here. I have been having trouble getting the proper aspect ratio and resolution when capturing from JVC 40000U using CapDVHS and firewire.The data list defaults to 720 x 480 and 4:3. It does not matter if it is a tape or using pass-thru. The capture is the same. I don't know how to change these parameters and cannot find a solution. This is the only program I found that I can use and to capture without recording to tape first. I have it connected to my DirecTV H20 S-Video and to my firewire on computer. No Firewire on STB. The tapes I make look near HD quality, but when I transfer to Windows 7 PC, the image degrades and aspect ratio is not widescreen and squished. Is there a solution for changing these data parameters?
Thank you in advance
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Last edited by ckp; 16th Jun 2011 at 18:07.
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720x480 is the usual frame size for standard definition NTSC video. The display aspect ratio is 4:3 even though the frame size aspect ratio is 3:2.
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Okay. Can I change it? I have an HD set top box with an HD signal. The tapes display the correct format and quality on my HDTV when played via the JVC 40000.
ThanksLast edited by ckp; 16th Jun 2011 at 18:07.
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720x480 is what comes over the firewire. All CapVHS does it take what comes in and puts it in a file. You can change it by you will be resizing and reencoding.
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If you are getting 720x480 that is what your JVC 40000U is putting out. You need to look for a setting in the deck that specifies HD output. Are these commercial or otherwise protected tapes? If so the deck is forced to downgrade HD to SD at the firewire port. The only way I know of to get HD caps in that case is to use a Hauppauge HD PVR and record the HD component output.
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These are tapes I recorded and it is also a direct stream to my pc via the JVC 40000U. There are many different channels and all are the same result. I am aware of the Hauppauge unit, but if I can get this working without spending $200, I'd like that much better. I'm going to recheck my settings again and see if I have missed something.
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I checked my settings and all look like they should, I even changed it to upconvert 720P to 1080i. No change. I tried recording a D-Theater tape and it did not even record any info. I'm sure it's copy protected. I would already have a Hauppauge unit, but money is tight right now.
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Thank Hollywood for the down scaling.
By the way, when HD video is output over firewire it's MPEG encoded (more compressed), not DV encoded. -
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[QUOTE=vaporeon800;2086638] Your problem lies there. Your claim of "near HD quality" when recording S-Video onto tapes seems dubious.
Well it's far better than I am getting from my firewire and the aspect ratio is correct. The quality is quite acceptable with the DVHS or even SVHS tapes I record even through the SVideo port. It looks pretty darn good. -
Well, it looks like I'm stuck with what I've got. I record Nascar and Formula 1 and take it to a friends and view. There isn't a DVHS player there. On the bright side, I can record 5 hours (I hope) to my RAID and put it on a flash drive, change the format on the HDTV and re-stretch it getting rid of the side bars also. It's not HD, but it's not horrible. Oh well. Thanks for all the input.
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There is a tool that lets you set the display aspect ratio of DV AVI files without reencoding. I forget the name...
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Yes. I think MPEG Streamclip can do it. If not, search a bit and a tool will turn up.
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Last edited by ckp; 17th Jun 2011 at 19:49.
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The file size limitation is a problem. It doesn't like my 5 hour MPEG.
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Can you run Component into the DVHS?
By using S-Video out of the DirecTV box you are starting out with SD resolution. You may sometimes get true 16:9 AR progressive video out of this, and also sometimes a cleaner picture than a regular SD channel. "Near-HD Quality" is possible. But it Can't be HD.
BUT, if you could input Component into the DVHR, you would have true HD at the recorder to stream to the PC. -
It's not HD, but it's alot better than SD, near HD. There are only SVIDEO inputs and i.Link(Firewire) inputs. No firewire out of my DirecTV box. This is driving me fruit because I thought I had a decent solution with the DVDPatcher. MPG2Cut2 strips it to a ts stream and DVDPatcher won't recognize the files. I am recording in smaller chunks and going to see what I can do.
So far, changing the format of the TV is the best option for restretching it.
On another note, while I'm searching tools, is there a sleek and quick MPEG4 encoder for MPEG2 files? It took 3 hours with Freemake to convert it on a 64 bit Win 7 quad core Athlon machine.(not my HTPC)Last edited by ckp; 18th Jun 2011 at 13:33.
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My 5 Hour file is 26GB. It states it is a .mpg file. The clips I removed from it have a .TS extension. The other files a patched with DVDPatcher had a .mpg extension also, but were less than 10 GB. I must be doing something wrong here.
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So if I get this right, you are going S-Video from sat tuner to the DVHS JVC 40000U and Firewire to the PC and recording with CapDVHS.
S-Video is always SD and will normally be converted to 704x480 with 4:3 aspect flag. There is no "wide" flag for analog S-Video but it may be possible to configure your sat box to output in "wide" mode via S-Video. That would result in a horizontally compressed image when viewed as analog S-Video.
This is what wide 704x480 looks like horizontally squeezed. This was caped 720x480 off S-Video
so shows 8 pixels blanking left and right.
The 4000U will still assume this is 4:3 for Firewire pass through unless it has a menu setting to ID the analog input as wide.
The format the 4000U outputs is MPeg2-TS at 704x480 for SD. CapDVHS seems to lack any menu to over-ride the aspect ratio flag coming in. It just recordes the MPeg2-TS stream to a TS file. CapDVHS allows you to choose a file extension (e.g. TS, mpg, M2T, etc.) but this in no way changes the video coding, only the file extension.
So, assuming the horizontally compressed image makes it to the TS file, you can now use a third party app to change the aspect ratio flag in the video header. There is no need to recode.Last edited by edDV; 18th Jun 2011 at 16:06.
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ProjectX will take a .TS file and convert to a .m2p (program stream) which might be acceptable to DVDPatcher.
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Go to my next post
Last edited by ckp; 18th Jun 2011 at 18:52. Reason: pictures too small
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I didn't realize the pictures would be so small
Here's the original via VCR firewire to my PC, saved as original
The DVDPatcher screen
The patched file fills screen 720 x 480 says the software
The DVDPatcher when I try to change the aspect ratio of the 26GB file......."no sequenceheader found!".........
Last edited by ckp; 18th Jun 2011 at 18:54.
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Are you taking pictures with a camera?
Looks SD to me. I'd need to try DVDpatcher.
If S-Video, that is the limiting gate.
Can't tell from your shots if this is a simple 4:3 to 16:9 stretch (i.e. fat short people).Last edited by edDV; 18th Jun 2011 at 20:52.
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Yes on the camera and yes on the simple stretch, tall and skinny to normal size.
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