Why is iuVCR the best ?

[schematic2]

Hi
No matter what I do, or what software I try, "iuVCR" (using huffyuv codec) gives me by far the best quality. I've tried several other capture utilities (all work fair) but iuVCR is by far the best. Why is this? What am I overlooking? Could it be something in the huffyuv codec that enhances? I'm told that the signal through firewire is "DV" data encoded. Why won't a direct copy to the harddrive fair as good as iuVCR+Huffyuv?

Please relieve me of my misery. . .

[SatStorm]

Update your profile with the hardware you are using...

[schematic2]

udated....

I hope we can resolve this issue. Is it possible its the way media player reads it?

[SatStorm]

It is a media player problem. It doesn't recompress correctly DVs.
You need to set up your system better. Try unistall all the related drivers and install only the ones you really need.
Installing all the possible drivers isn't a smart move...

[BrainStorm69]

Have you tried VirtualVCR with the HUffy codec? Works pretty well for me. I'd be interested in how it compares to iuVCR with Huffy.

[schematic2]

satstorm, you are right!! Its simply a windows media issue. It doesn't play DV nicely. I did a comparison test. I took a capture with huffy and a file transfer with windv. The capture looked better with media player. I then compressed both with TMPGEnc and the both looked good.

Thanks for putting me out of my misery!


BrainStorm69
I don't think virtualvcr does firewire. Its all I use. . .