Newbie needs help with interlace problems.

[Reggie]

Hello all, I've done a few test captures, and apart from the dropped frames issue (I'll deal with that later.......) I seem to be getting an interlacing problem (verticle jagged picture when there is motion), I'm using iuvcr from a PAL source, I don't see any specific options for interlacing, there is an interleave option, but I don't know whether this has anything to do with it. If iuvcr doesn't deal with interlacing correctly, is there any other capture software that does?

[bugster]

Try playing your captures in PowerDVD and see if the problem is still there. PowerDVD will de-interlace on the fly, most other PC players do not and your display is not interlaced. If it looks OK in PowerDVD it will look ok on your TV.

[Reggie]

Thanks for that info. Bugster, I tried to play the avi in PowerDVD, but it crashed it, looking at the avi again in wmp I found that the jaggies are gone on movement, the 1st frame looks lined, I guess that's where it only caught the 1st or 2nd field at the very start of the capture?

Don't know why it crashes powerDVD but in using uncompressed avi I didn't get any frame drops at all.

My next question is, what do you all consider to be the best (most efficient, best picture quality) mpg2 codec that I can use in iuvcr?

I've got a reasonable setup, AMD 2800+ XP, 2x512MB kingston HyperX low latency ram (ram and cpu running at 333), msi FX5600 VTDR 128MB agp card, 120GB 8MB cache hdd, in a shuttle sn45g XPC box.

I noticed that everyone says to use a 2nd HDD if possible, would a firewire caddie drive be man enough for the job? If not I think I can squeeze another drive in the XPC box.

[rcb]

Check iuvcr's help file - there are some codec suggestions there

[Reggie]

Hmmmn, tried the picvideo codec as per iuvcr's instructions, and it's quite bad quality, very blocky

I'll try the huffyuv next, I hope it allows for better control of the datarate for the codec, it looks quite low on picvideo, and no options to change it.....

[Reggie]

Tried huffyuv but all I get from iuvcr is an error saying "Unable Render capture graph for current settings, check video stream settings and capture codec and try again", I'm also getting the same error message with Picvideo MJpeg codec, although it worked fine before I installed huffyuv. I tried removing huffyuv and uninstalling/reinstalling the Pic Codecs, but I still get the same error message

any clues anyone?