Indiana Jones & Star Wars Help!

[MetaPhaze]

I'm trying to capture the Indiana Jones and Star Wars trilogies to my PC. I am using a Laser Disc player as my source. I've followed the Doom9 guide for capturing pretty much to the tee. Now the problem I'm having is the movie speed starts out fine but down on the bottom letter box where the screen normally is black flickers images from the start of the capture. About 3-4 seconds later the movie lags and becomes totally out of sync. I am also having audio capture problems. There seems to be no audio being captured. I told Vdub to capture audio and the audio is playing fine through my PC I can hear it. One note on Vdub's volume control it seems to be extremely low the blue and red bars I don't know if that has anything to do with it but hopefully someone can help. My PC specs are in my profile.

[Will Hay]

I'm out of idea's other than.....
......I had audio video sync issues with Virtualdub until I inchecked the box which states 'lock video stream to audio'.
Will

[andkiich]

VirtualDub is known to have problems with the ATI AIW cards. As much as I like using VDub, I hade to find another capture program. Try something different asnd see if that doesn't resolve your issues.

[lordsmurf]

Use MMC 8.x and capture direct to MPEG2. Just be sure to make your own preset (as seen at lordsmurf.com) and not the factory ones, as they suck.

[MJPollard]

FWIW, I have an ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500DV, and I use VirtualVCR to do my captures. Worked like a charm with my Star Wars laserdiscs: no dropped frames, clean video, and perfect audio/video sync.

Also, if you're going to edit your captures (say, to combine the various sides of the laserdiscs into one file), don't capture via MPEG2. I capture to AVI using the Huffyuv codec; with it, two hours takes up about 50-60GB at 720x480 @ 48,000 Hz 16-bit audio.

Just a few suggestions. Hope things work out for you!

[MetaPhaze]

I'll try your suggestions I really like Vdub though MMC I don't like because I can't capture avi with huffyuv codec.

[MJPollard]

I'll try your suggestions I really like Vdub though MMC I don't like because I can't capture avi with huffyuv codec.

Like andkiich said, VirtualDub isn't as "ATI-friendly" as it could be (it has to do with the fact that VirtualDub was written to use Video For Windows drivers, which ATI doesn't supply; you have to use a wrapper, which adds an extra layer between the card, its drivers, and VirtualDub). I used to use VirtualDub for my captures, and it mostly worked, but I'd still get an occasional dropped frame. I switched to VirtualVCR, and my dropped frames disappeared, at least when capturing from laserdisc (I still get 'em when capturing from VHS, but I attribute that to the VHS signal quality).

Give VirtualVCR a try. It's simple, it's easy to use, and it's designed for cards with WDM and DirectShow drivers (such as the ATI), so it should work out better for you. It even has audio/video sync locking, if you need it. And it works with Huffyuv.

[lordsmurf]

I'll try your suggestions I really like Vdub though MMC I don't like because I can't capture avi with huffyuv codec.

I don't see why. I just finished up the ATI AVI guide, and I used HuffYUV as my codec example.

Do you have it installed properly?

http://www.lordsmurf.com/capture/atiavi/atiavi.htm

[MetaPhaze]

I noticed why it looked like crap to me, the reason being is I just realized lol that the lines of resolution for TV is 525 and CRT monitor is much higher. Therefore the PC is basically blowing up a bad image therefore it looks somewhat pixelated on my pc. The good news is FreeVCR works and so does MMC. However FreeVCR is having problems capping audio which is easily fixed via my sound card just to lazy to move some plugs around. I guess I'll just use MMC to AVI Huffyuv codec then re-encode mpeg2 for DVD standard thanks for all of your help and Lordsmurf fantastic excellent guide nice job!