Looking For Good DV Codec

[MI6]

I'm looking for good DV codec for capturing video.
Another question. I don't have digital camera or "firewire IN" in my computer for capturing video . I capture with analog TV card using Hyffuv or Pegasus codec but I want to try with digital one, (for smaller capture size). It's impossible to capture analog video with DV codec or I can do it anyway. I have try with MainConcept DV codec, no framedrop but after encoding with TMPGEnc picture is not so good, especially when fast motion scene appears. Maybe I want too much???
Regards.

[Barnabas]

You can't capture to a DV codec with an analog card. DV devices have sort of a built-in codec, which will write to the HD as an AVI file.

TMPGEnc is a GREAT encoder, so if you caps look poor, it's likely your hard, or how you are capping.

I capture TV via DV via firewire, then encode to MPEG with TMPGEnc. Quality is GREAT

[ronnylov]

Most analogue capturing cards seems to capture interlaced video with "top field first" but DV is always "bottom field first". Maybe that's the problem?

[thecoalman]

picture is not so good, especially when fast motion scene appears. .

Sounds as if you have selected the wrong field order when you encoded it in TMPGenc.

[bugster]

You can't capture to a DV codec with an analog card.

Yes you can, try the free Panasonic DV codec.