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Poll: Should I capture home-videos into an AVI or MPG file?

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  1. 28th Jul 2003 23:07 #1
    g_shocker182
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    Which should I capture with?
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  2. 30th Jul 2003 06:00 #2
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    I assume you mean Analogue Capture...

    I suggest using an MMJPEG (PicVideo if you have a CPU < 2GHz, otherwise Morgan Multimedia) codec and iuVCR as capture program (if VirtualDub doesn't work).

    I have used this setup to convert some of my VHS tapes to DVD and the DVD quality is quite good.
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    Far too subjective a question.
    It depends significantly on your hardware, your requirments, your expectations and your final output plan.
    I would never expect to achieve the same results for mpeg as I do when capturing avi using PicVideo quality 19/20.
    Are you intending to output to dvd?
    What is your source?
    The following posts might prove informative:
    this one
    .........this one too
    ...............this one especially
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  4. 30th Jul 2003 06:54 #4
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    I was high on capturing to MPEG2 but after working with AVI for a while, I have seen the light.

    If at all possible, capture to AVI.
    Don't give in to DVD2ONE, that leads to the dark side.
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  5. 30th Jul 2003 08:48 #5
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    when I want speed over quality, I capture in mpeg-2.

    when I want quality over speed, I capture in avi, either in Huffy or MJPEG.
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